Calculator Radiac No1 - Cold War ephemera
Good evening gents,
Being on a rest day, as is my wont I was rooting around in the "Pandora's Box" that represents much of my personal history where I found this and thought members might find it morbidly interesting;
A simple and unassuming little item that only SNCO's and commisioned officers were allowed acces to unless it scared the bejesus out of the "Toms". Just the same as dosimeter readers. Everyone was to wear a dosimeter but only those in positions of command could read them. We also had a table of radiation doses that specified according to dosage who could fight on, who could fight on but should be withdrawn from contamination and those who were so contaminated the they were sc***ed so they should fight on anyway
Something like a circular slide rule, if the Cold War turned hot it would allow one to calculate just how big a bite of the "S**t sandwich" you were going to enjoy
It was used in exercises employing notional data and honestly it terrified me and occasionally I still have bad dreams about what we might have gotten into
I can't say what it means to me that this was never used in anger
Regards
Mark
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