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Blogging About the Unthinkable: Kiev
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Friday, May 27, 2011. In July I'm planning on a return trip to Chernobyl, which should hopefully include some sites I missed out on last time. I'm also trying to arrange a visit to an operating VVER plant here in Ukraine, but no definite word on that yet. Hopefully I'll have interesting things to say about it.
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Blogging About the Unthinkable: August 2010
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Wednesday, August 04, 2010. Control room of Chernobyl NPP Unit 1. These gauges indicate position of control rods in the active zone. Black boxes are neutron flux indicators. Shutdown switches. "АЗ5" switch (top row, center) initiated rapid emergency shutdown. Tuesday, August 03, 2010. Can You Spot the Math Error? Somet...
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Blogging About the Unthinkable: October 2010
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Saturday, October 23, 2010. Wait, FEMA Got to Edit the Script of The Day After? FEMA Public Affairs Memorandum About. The Day After , August 13, 1982. One of the big surprises so far was this August 13, 1982 memorandum from FEMA Public Affairs chief Jim Holton about The Day After. What precisely were these changes?
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Blogging About the Unthinkable: March 2011
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Saturday, March 12, 2011. Fukushima Daiichi: Learning From Chernobyl. Similarly, the Japanese government has decided to assume the worst in managing the stricken reactors at Fukushima Daiichi. As of this moment. Fukushima Daiichi unit 1, which suffered the dramatic hydrogen explosion. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Russia...
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Blogging About the Unthinkable: Basics of Soviet Civil Defense-1980
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Thursday, October 21, 2010. Basics of Soviet Civil Defense-1980. 1980 Soviet civil defense propaganda film "Основы Гражданской обороны"- "Civil Defense Basics.". Frank Blazich, Jr. Ahh, I love youtube :). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a history grad student with a special interest in Soviet atomic culture.
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Blogging About the Unthinkable: Wait, FEMA Got to Edit the Script of The Day After?
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Saturday, October 23, 2010. Wait, FEMA Got to Edit the Script of The Day After? FEMA Public Affairs Memorandum About. The Day After , August 13, 1982. One of the big surprises so far was this August 13, 1982 memorandum from FEMA Public Affairs chief Jim Holton about The Day After. What precisely were these changes?
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Blogging About the Unthinkable: March 2010
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Sunday, March 28, 2010. SVBR in New York Times; Bellona Unimpressed. According to the article:. Environmentalists say the technology is outdated and potentially dangerous, and marketing it as green energy is an abuse of nuclear power’s good green name. I'm fairly sure that the authors are confused here, and are conflat...
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Blogging About the Unthinkable: My Article on Soviet Civil Defense in the Journal of Cold War Studies
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Monday, June 18, 2012. My Article on Soviet Civil Defense in the Journal of Cold War Studies. The Journal of Cold War Studies has published my article on civil defense bomb shelters in the Soviet Union during the early Cold War. Was There a Real “Mineshaft Gap”? Bomb Shelters in the USSR, 1945–1962. The Garden At Home.
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Blogging About the Unthinkable: RBMK Control Room
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Wednesday, August 04, 2010. Control room of Chernobyl NPP Unit 1. These gauges indicate position of control rods in the active zone. Black boxes are neutron flux indicators. Shutdown switches. "АЗ5" switch (top row, center) initiated rapid emergency shutdown. Response from anyone appreciated. I was searching the Intern...
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Blogging About the Unthinkable: May 2012
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Blogging About the Unthinkable. I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn. Friday, May 04, 2012. In other news, in July I'm going to Kazakhstan to tour the old Soviet nuclear testing site at Semipalatinsk, and (if I'm really lucky) the decommissioned BN-350 sodium-cooled fast reactor/desalination plant. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. North Carolina Civil Defense History.
