Israel Dismisses Warnings From US About Attacking Iran

[AverageJoe90]

44. I know about Able Archer 83, and Countdown to Looking Glass.

Some very interesting stuff here, it can be admitted, but I have to be honest and say that it doesn't really disprove my point.
There was indeed a very real possibility of atomic war in 1983 and '84; tensions were at the highest they'd ever been since the Cuban Missile Crisis and Europe was at the very center, with NATO on one side and the Warsaw Pact on the other, all with thousands of nukes ready to launch perhaps literally at a moment's notice. The Cold War, however, came to a close in 1991, and other than perhaps the Black Brant incident in Jan. 1995, we haven't even come remotely close to nuclear war since. And I should also mention that CtoLG largely revolved around Saudi Arabia and Oman for a flashpoint, not Iran, and Central Europe for The Day After(granted, though, the BBC's Threads did use the bombing of Mashhad as one of the several flashpoints).

So, you certainly are right on one thing: atomic war between Russia and the U.S. was a very real thing just over 20 years ago, and particularly in the '80s and during the Cuban Crisis, and thankfully Reagan came to his senses after watching TDA(which, IMO, is one of the most important films of the late 20th Century). However, though, we haven't had to really worry about it since then, apart from the occasional fearmongering(particularly from neo-cons).

If there is one thing we can be legitimately concerned about, it would be nuclear terrorism, since many bombs have gone missing since 1991. And the threat might not just come from foreign terrorists, either.........

(P.S., frankly, I doubt Iran would be able to attack the U.S. directly anyway. They simply don't have the tech to build any ICBMs yet, and I think there'll be a revolution before they can get to that stage.)