Alex Wellerstein on Twitter: "Tattoo blood-typing from the Cold War to create a "walking blood bank" in the event of an atomic bomb attack. https://t.co/0is5mh7EeT… https://t.co/evC8VqsiLk"

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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

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Tattoo blood-typing from the Cold War to create a "walking blood bank" in the event of an atomic bomb attack. http://eblue.org/article/S0190-9622(07)02359-6/pdf …pic.twitter.com/NlHLTq1WMR

12:08 PM - 12 Mar 2017

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1. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 12 Mar 2017
  
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  Also, I thought this was a nice detail. (All of this sent to me by a reader.)pic.twitter.com/z7xUlunEuV
  
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1. SalvadorB II*II IndependènciaJa‏ @Carbo1973 12 Mar 2017
  
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  on the funnier side, this concept is put to practice in a radical version in Mad Max: Fury Road
  
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1. K Michals‏ @rocbolt 12 Mar 2017
  
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  Conelrad has a good article on the subject as well http://www.conelrad.com/atomicsecrets/secrets.php?secrets=11 …
  
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1. Kara Swanson‏ @KaraWSwanson 12 Mar 2017
  
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  How fascinating! "Walking blood bank" concept long preceded Cold War, but wo tattoos. Blood became war materiel during WWII
  
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1. Brewster North‏ @brewsternorth 12 Mar 2017
  
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  I believe tattooing of data incl blood type is now found in US armed forces as improvement on dog tags.
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1. SalvadorB II*II IndependènciaJa‏ @Carbo1973 12 Mar 2017
  
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  like the SS had done to their soldiers?
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1. ezjoLife‏ @ezjolife Feb 6
  
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  Check out this video of my mom’s storyhttps://youtu.be/HbYPQiIwm1E
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