Today, without ‘duck & cover’ training, everyone at work, home, and your children at school, will impulsively rush to the nearest windows to see what that ‘bright flash’ was, just-in-time to be shredded by the glass imploding inward from that delayed blast wave. They’d never been taught that even in the open, just laying flat, reduces by eight-fold the chances of being hit by debris from that brief, 3-second, tornado strength blast.

Then, later, before the radioactive fallout can hurt them, most downwind won’t know to move perpendicular away from the drift of the fallout to get out from under it before it even arrives. And, for those who can’t evacuate in time, few know how quick & easy it is to throw together an expedient fallout shelter, to safely wait out the radioactive fallout as it loses 99% of its lethal intensity in the first 48 hours.

The greatest tragedy of that horrific loss of life, when nukes come to America, will be that most families had needlessly perished, out of ignorance of how easily they might have avoided becoming additional casualties, all because they were duped that it was futile to ever try to learn how to beforehand.

The disarmament movement’s sincere supporters, just wanting a world safe from nukes, will discover those unintended consequences to be inconvenient truths of the worst kind.

The Good News About Nuclear Destruction! at http://www.ki4u.com/goodnews.htm dispels those deadly myths of nuclear un-survivability, empowering American families to then better survive nukes. For as long as nukes exist, these life-saving insights are essential to every families survival!

As for Mao’s Last Dancer, I liked the bits set in China and the ballet scenes (except for the precious use of slo-mo) — “Le Sacre Du Printemps” was especially good. BUT the “politics” of the film is straight out of the Tea Party or Sarah Palin wing of the Republican party. I’m no big sinophile, but this film sets things back decades. And I was very confused by the timeline anyway… Regarding Bruce Greenwood’s performance — Did he think he was replacing My. Humphreys in “Are You Being Served?”

I read a lot of the critic and community reviews on Rotten Tomatoes (after I wrote my review) and I was pleasantly surprised to see it’s receiving 90% favorable responses! You may be right about it being the next “Little Miss Sunshine”.

It just came out of situations we could relate to. It seemed like the audience, myself included, laughed out loud whenever we found something that reminded us of ourselves or someone we love.

I think this is this year’s Little Miss Sunshine.