What Will It Mean When We Are Gone?

US aircraft carrier-led strike group headed toward Korean Peninsula

By Ryan Browne, CNN

Updated 1:19 AM ET, Sun April 9, 2017

(CNN)A US aircraft carrier-led strike group is headed toward the Western Pacific Ocean near the Korean Peninsula, a US defense official confirmed to CNN.

The move of the Vinson strike group is in response to recent North Korean provocations, the official said.

Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of US Pacific Command, directed the USS Carl Vinson strike group to sail north to the Western Pacific after departing Singapore on Saturday, Pacific Command announced.

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A full moon shines tonight. I stand gazing at a pearly-white celestial ball, hanging high in a blue velvet darkness above me. The charm and romance of the moon, momentarily, overshadows the disturbing news of the day, in my chapter of the world. In some mystic literature, as well as mythology and folklore, legend says that a full moon symbolizes a great journey or that a significant change is about to occur.

News of a navy carrier strike force headed into the waters surrounding North Korea, produces a sense of urgent fear in me. It is nearly a certainty, that America will launch a 1st. strike against Kim Jung Un's regime, before Kim can launch his own 1st. strike on America with a nuclear tipped missile. 

Scientists say that it's better for the victims of a nuclear blast, if the bomb is detonated during the day, instead of at night. They say that if a nuclear bomb is detonated at night and people are looking in that direction, that they will be instantly blinded because their pupils are dilated at night.  

When the sun rises in the east tomorrow morning to peek through my small kitchen window in middle America,...the moon will be rising in the sky over the fields of farmers and poor rural villages of North Korea. Tomorrow, how will the world be changed?

There was no history before man existed. When we are gone... again, there will be no history. 

*Excerpt taken from: Atomic Archive.com*(Page 13)

Flash blindness

Flash blindness is caused by the initial brilliant flash of light produced by the nuclear detonation. The light is received on the retina than can be tolerated, but less than is required for irreversible injury. The retina is particularly susceptible to visible and short wavelength infrared light. The result is a bleaching of visual pigment and temporary blindness. Vision is completely recovered as the pigment is regenerated.

During the daylight hours, flash blindness does not persist for more than 2 minutes, but generally lasts a few seconds. At night, when the pupil is dilated, flash blindness will last for a longer period of time.

A 1-megaton explosion can cause flash blindness at distances as great as 13 miles on a clear day, or 53 miles on a clear night. If the intensity is great enough, a permanent retinal burn will result.

Retinal injury is the most far-reaching injury effect of nuclear explosions, but it is relatively rare since the eye must be looking directly at the detonation. Retinal injury results from burns in the area of the retina where the fireball image is focused.