May 17, 2022 04:10 PM
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https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/rubber...lear-bomb/
EXCERPTS: . . . Here’s one suggestion from the mid-20th century on how to prepare for nuclear conflict and emerge victorious. In the April 1950 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, Frank Tinsley wrote an article titled: “Rubber Fortresses for A-Bomb Defense.”
[...] Mechanix Illustrated (1928-1984) was one among many magazines in mid-20th-century America where science met fiction, on the condition that the meeting of those two produced something wildly exciting. Truthfulness and feasibility were secondary concerns.
So, while the article and illustrations strongly imply that these rubber bubbles were being considered as the first line of defense against an atomic sneak attack, nothing suggests that America’s military was ever serious about building a string of rubber fortresses across the northern edge of the continent.
Unless they just went ahead and did it, of course. How would we ever have known about them, cleverly hidden as they are below all those inflatable rocks? (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: . . . Here’s one suggestion from the mid-20th century on how to prepare for nuclear conflict and emerge victorious. In the April 1950 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, Frank Tinsley wrote an article titled: “Rubber Fortresses for A-Bomb Defense.”
[...] Mechanix Illustrated (1928-1984) was one among many magazines in mid-20th-century America where science met fiction, on the condition that the meeting of those two produced something wildly exciting. Truthfulness and feasibility were secondary concerns.
So, while the article and illustrations strongly imply that these rubber bubbles were being considered as the first line of defense against an atomic sneak attack, nothing suggests that America’s military was ever serious about building a string of rubber fortresses across the northern edge of the continent.
Unless they just went ahead and did it, of course. How would we ever have known about them, cleverly hidden as they are below all those inflatable rocks? (MORE - missing details)
