September 10, 1954 – The state civil defense
director, Robert M. Woodward, graces Chicago with some upbeat news when he
announces that a hydrogen bomb dropped at Madison Street and Kedzie Avenues
between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. would cause 3,030,096 deaths and 1,382,421
injuries. With an evacuation window of
15 minutes there would still be 1,876,227 deaths and 844,013 injuries. For those wondering why we folks in our sixties
and seventies sometimes act so strangely, it might be good to remember that we
grew up with regular updates like this instead of the latest updates on Pokémon
Go.
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