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On 2018-02-09, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
><hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>> In 1963, Western Union, under contract with the US Air Force, installed 
>> a nationwide nuclear weapon detonation detection system.  If there
>> was an attack, the airforce would be immediately notified.
>> 
>> The system worked by having special sensors that would only be
>> triggered by the intense light of a nuclear weapon.  Other light
>> (sunlight, lightning, etc) would not affect it.  Upon receipt of
>> the blast light, the sensor would send a off signal before the blast
>> shock wave (travels slower) and destroyed the sensor and wires.
>> Areas would have multiple sensors in case one was destroyed.
>> 
>> The sensors and warning system is described in the WUTR:
>> http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/17-1/p032.htm
>> 
>
> There is a story that there is one radio station in Russia (Moscow)  that
> broadcasts nothing but a continuous tone. Supposedly, if it ever stops
> broadcasting it will trigger a fail-safe launch on nukes. I read a story
> about this, but later it turned up in several factual contexts.
>

Variation on Dr, Strangelove?.

I lost my SW radio, but there used to be many, many very peculiar
broadcasts

The was a story of a Catholic couple in Ireland that had trouble
conceiving children, so the local parish priest was going to Rome,
and promised that he would light a candle in a certain church there,
and that wwould do the trick. 

The priest was sent on to the Missions and got home to his Irish
prish years after, so went to see the couple, the back door was
hanging off the hinges, children everywhere, but no sign of the
husband, Where was he?

"He is gone to Rome to make sure that bloody candle has gone out."


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greymaus.ireland.ie
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