Created by Bernard HP Gilroy and students
(c) 2005 Gilroy. Free for non-profit use.
More information (including a consolidated list) is available.
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Nuclear War Expansion Cards Created by Bernard HP Gilroy and students (c) 2005 Gilroy. Free for non-profit use. More information (including a consolidated list) is available. |
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| Mineshaft Gap | ||
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Your government's secret program to squirrel away productive and fecund members of the population pays off. Roll 1d3. For that many turns, at the start of your turn (including this one), gain 3 M people from the discard pile. Applies only when war is in effect. |
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Yet another card inspired by that goldmine of Cold War hilarity, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. At the end of the movie, the title character outlines how the United States might survive (sort of ) the activation of the Soviet Doomsday Device: By digging shelters deep in mines, hiding away survivors (at a female:male ratio of 10:1 and, of course, including top members of the Government) until the strontium-90 had decayed enough for humans to repopulate the surface. It is commented that the Russians might have such a program of their own, at which point General Buck Turgidson exclaims, "Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!" The joke is a play on the infamous "missile gap" that handed the 1960s election to John F. Kennedy. This card should not be confused with the one with a similar name. The icon is drawn from all those goofy 1950s backyard bomb shelters. -=-BhpG 2005 0719 |
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