Those who still remember slide rules from the time before pocket calculators or learned flying a plane before GPS devices became so common will love this site. Others who remember the atrocities of the cold war might have a different approach to these relics from a time we all hoped that it would have long passed…
But whatever approach or understanding for that time you might have the web site Cold War Calculators – a site dedicate to radiac calculators slides – might show you some new “instruments” seemingly necessary during this dark period…
We didn’t know there were that many kinds of different calculators for these strange purposes – radiation dosage calculators, bomb damage effect computers, nuclear effects estimators, causality slide rules, weapons effects rules and calculators, fallout predictors, burst calculators…
Anyway – bang you’re gone!
Have a look for yourself at the Cold War Calculators web site.
Click on the image below for the link
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Do others literally believe it?
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.