Blast-Resistant House, Portland Cement Association, 1955

    by Slow-moving-sloth

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    1. Deer-in-Motion on

      Of course the huge windows kinda negate it. The walls might be standing but everything else is gone.

    2. I was really curious about this claim, and as it turns out, a concrete company advertising their product as “blast resistant” is somewhat credible? If you look at the pictures of Hiroshima, the city was leveled except the concrete buildings, which still stood:
      [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Hiroshima_aftermath.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Hiroshima_aftermath.jpg)

      Hell, the Hiroshima Genbaku dome was directly under the detonation, and the building survived. You can even visit it today:

      [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Hiroshima_Dome_1945.gif](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Hiroshima_Dome_1945.gif)

      Of course, it won’t protect the occupants, but hey, your house will still be standing after you die!

    3. “Nope, you can’t have your money back. We said ‘blast-RESISTANT’, not ‘blast-PROOF’. Sorry about your family’s skin, and the shadow on the wall where your dog used to be. Better luck next nuclear war!”

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