Do you remember when you first realized that the your world might end in nuclear war?
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Legend In Your Own Mind
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. I was 10 years old then, but couldn't sleep at night worrying over nukes.
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it can't
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I remember when I was a kid, the megazines such as Popular Mechanics had plans to build a family fallout shelter. Schools would conduct drills so we could practice what to do when we were attacked. I also remember the tension during the Cuban missle crisis. It seems everyone was glued to the radio and tv sets while that was happening!
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When I was young and in school, as soon as I learned of the Atomic bomb I knew that nuclear doom was possible.
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I remember the cold war and the craziness of that.
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Another age, another cold war, another nervous nation!
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My world or the world ? - big difference. Anyway, I haven't realised it yet, but guess there's still time !
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I have not realized it because it's a nightmare that will likely not come true. Almost everyone understands and accepts that a nuclear war would not be beneficial for anyone. In December of 2006 the American Geophysical Union found that even the smallest use of a nuclear weapon could produce as many casulties as all of WWII. Further, a more conventional war between two opposing nations in the subtropics would devastate each other's populations as well as release enough nuclear fallout to irradiate most of the planet. Furthermore, they found that using nuclear weapons in the above war could activate nuclear winter. Shooting soot and smoke so high into the atmosphere - we'd largely overcast our skies for many years and the average global temperature would drop to as low as -8 degrees celsius. After a decade that temperature might climb to as high as -4 celsius. That's just between two nations. Now what reason do we have to incite mass suicide by all of them joining in? Wolframn
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