@PriceRip
It shows nuclear bombs being tested in the Nevada desert, underground and at sea.
IIRC, the one in Nevada not only killed those men who watched it but a lot of people who lived close to the border had high cancer rates.
St. George Utah I think is the town that had the high cancer rates.
The idiots who think that they can set off a mini nuke at Russia are idiots. If Russia gets hit with any type of nuclear weapon they are going to discharge their big ones and they have nuclear weapons on their submarines and I wonder how many of those are sitting off our coastlines?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39573188. Shorter version of video of the bombs.

A few of the men looked up just as the blast wave hit them. I wonder how long they lived after watching that?

#2

          My friend has young kids so I can hardly blame her for being scared.

          Hysteria can only work if you let it work. Even if North Korea did send a Nuke this way. The image in your head does not match reality.

@PriceRip I reserve the right to be concerned about the notion of two superpowers firing nuclear missiles at each other, regardless of whether they've reduced their stockpiles since the late eighties/early nineties, or not.

#2

          My friend has young kids so I can hardly blame her for being scared.

          Hysteria can only work if you let it work. Even if North Korea did send a Nuke this way. The image in your head does not match reality.

@The Voice In the Wilderness

Trump should have been talking to Xi about replacing that hereditary idiot in NK and replacing him with a Chinese puppet. Or China directly "restoring order" in North Korea.

I still think that the end of the North Korean regime will come when Kim Jong-Un launches a live, armed rocket, and instead of flying off towards Japan, it misdirects into China. At that point, the NK regime will not find the Chinese as forgiving as the Americans and Japanese have heretofore been.

#2 And that's a big maybe. Chinese & Russian missiles can reach anywhere.

China has more to fear from a crazy man in charge of the missiles than we do. North Korea is dependent on China for their very existence. Trump should have been talking to Xi about replacing that hereditary idiot in NK and replacing him with a Chinese puppet. Or China directly "restoring order" in North Korea. As China woos South Korea economically, N. Korea becomes just a bad embarrassment.

@thanatokephaloides

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Volume One - A Reckoning
Chapter VI: War Propaganda

...
The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out.

Thus we see that propaganda must follow a simple line and correspondingly the basic tactics must be psychologically sound.

For instance, it was absolutely wrong to make the enemy ridiculous, as the Austrian and German comic papers did. It was absolutely wrong because actual contact with an enemy soldier was bound to arouse an entirely different conviction, and the results were devastating; for now the German soldier, under the direct impression of the enemy's resistance, felt himself swindled by his propaganda service. His desire to fight, or even to stand film, was not strengthened, but the opposite occurred. His courage flagged.

By contrast, the war propaganda of the English and Americans was psychologically sound. By representing the Germans to their own people as barbarians and Huns, they prepared the individual soldier for the terrors of war, and thus helped to preserve him from disappointments. After this, the most terrible weapon that was used against him seemed only to confirm what his propagandists had told him; it likewise reinforced his faith in the truth of his government's assertions, while on the other hand it increased his rage and hatred against the vile enemy For the cruel effects of the weapon, whose use by the enemy he now came to know, gradually came to confirm for him the 'Hunnish' brutality of the barbarous enemy, which he had heard all about; and it never dawned on him for a moment that his own weapons possibly, if not probably, might be even more terrible in their effects.

And so the English soldier could never feel that he had been misinformed by his own countrymen, as unhappily was so much the case with the German soldier that in the end he rejected everything coming from this source as 'swindles' and 'bunk.' All this resulted from the idea that any old simpleton (or even somebody who was intelligent ' in other things ') could be assigned to propaganda work, and the failure to realize that the most brilliant psychologists would have been none too good.

And so the German war propaganda offered an unparalleled example of an 'enlightenment' service working in reverse, since any correct psychology was totally lacking.
There was no end to what could be learned from the enemy by a man who kept his eyes open, refused to let his perceptions be ossified, and for four and a half years privately turned the stormflood of enemy propaganda over in his brain.

#3

The major role of any government is to lie about the lies of yesterday, lie about today, and prepare notes for the lies to be given out tomorrow regarding the lies of today.

That's "the major role of any government" at any time in history!

Or, as Hermann Goering put it: "It works the same way in any country."

@Pluto's Republic

the obligations of great wealth came early in childhood, in the form of public service. I recall a biography written about the Kennedys that talked about that. Public service was practiced along with the management of wealth. It was second nature, and each generation taught it to the next.

And in the Northern Tidewater in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, new money picked up the habits fast. In an earlier Comment I mentioned the Kennedys and the Roosevelts as examples.

#4

…learning the obligations of great wealth came early in childhood, in the form of public service. I recall a biography written about the Kennedys that talked about that. Public service was practiced along with the management of wealth. It was second nature, and each generation taught it to the next. The tradition was established in England, as Jane Austin readers will know well. It maintained a harmony in the countryside when the very wealthy did their duty among the poor on their estates.