# What would you write on a thermonuclear warhead? (Messages on bombs) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739 "2016-06-29T22:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/1 "2016-06-29T22:56:22Z")
I was idly wondering about this today, writing messages on bombs is a time-honoured tradition: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7d/46/f4/7d46f4a8029013800c8efb6bf9814a23.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7d/46/f4/7d46f4a8029013800c8efb6bf9814a23.jpg) [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BK5vIheCAAAFcl-.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BK5vIheCAAAFcl-.jpg) Flash-forward to the present _(and well…fifty odd years…)_ and we have thermonuclear warheads/re-entry vehicles: [![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kBAQ3Fd39xg/ULXqFeBni5I/AAAAAAAAaSE/fs5IzoFwQ9M/s1600/Peacekeeper%2BMissile%2BWarheads.jpg) ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kBAQ3Fd39xg/ULXqFeBni5I/AAAAAAAAaSE/fs5IzoFwQ9M/s1600/Peacekeeper%2BMissile%2BWarheads.jpg) Given the chance and assuming its going to be used in anger\*, what would you write on one? \*ie no pacifist messages Bit of a morbid subject I know… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/2 "2016-06-29T23:05:14Z")
“You’re about to have a real bad microsecond.” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/3 "2016-06-29T23:08:33Z")
No pacifist messege? Well, there goes “Give Peace A Chance”. How about “Hot Potato”? That’s what Super Mutants sometimes say in Fallout 4 when they lob a hand grenade. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/4 "2016-06-29T23:10:25Z")
One shake, two shakes, three shakes… Stranger ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/5 "2016-06-29T23:15:16Z")
“Where’s the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering ka… oh wait, HERE IT IS!!!” ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/6 "2016-06-29T23:27:18Z")
[Dr. Strangelove](http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/kubrick-comedy/Strangelove/bombs.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/7 "2016-06-29T23:32:39Z")
Good morning sunshine? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/8 "2016-06-29T23:37:57Z")
If You Can Read This You’re Too Close ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/9 "2016-06-30T00:13:49Z")
“I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.” “We apologize for the inconvenience.” “Th-th-th-that’s all, folks!” ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/10 "2016-06-30T00:26:47Z")
This is not a bowl of petunias. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/11 "2016-06-30T00:42:51Z")
This hurts me as much as it hurts you. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/12 "2016-06-30T00:55:59Z")
“Today is the last day of the rest of your life.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/13 "2016-06-30T01:08:17Z")
“Bye Bye Mom I’m off the drop the bomb So don’t wait up for me.” ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/14 "2016-06-30T01:17:26Z")
Got Milk? ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/15 "2016-06-30T01:44:08Z")
No Return Address ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/16 "2016-06-30T01:48:20Z")
“Hope you didn’t have any plans for today…” ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/17 "2016-06-30T01:49:08Z")
“Remember that [episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Peace_and_Quiet#Plot) of the Twilight Zone?” ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/18 "2016-06-30T01:51:48Z")
“Gluten Free” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/19 "2016-06-30T02:39:09Z")
Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We’ll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry. And we will all go together when we go. Ev’ry hottenhot and ev’ry eskimo. When the air becomes uranious, And we will all go simultaneous. Yes we all will go together when we go. – Tom Lehrer ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739/20 "2016-06-30T02:40:56Z")
A sketch of a phallus has done quite well for millennia, I don’t see how this should be any different. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739.md?page=2)