I Hope The Russians Love Their Children Too

[paleotn]

5. Sobering. Thanks for posting .....

A look back at the bad ole days for those around during the '62 Cuban Missile crises, Able Archer in '83 and everything else in between. And for those who weren't, a tutorial on how frightening those days truly were. Many of us simply believed we'd never live to old age, since nuclear war was inevitable. Luckily, cooler heads prevailed, but the fucking evil things are still around, just not talked about daily over the dinner table via the evening news. We may be in even more danger today than during the cold war, since the proliferation of relatively small numbers of low yield weapons reduces the concept of MAD and allows some to believe they could actually win a nuclear war. I think the only thing that allowed the human race to survive those days was the knowledge on all sides that use of nuclear weapons was an act of suicide.