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<blockquote data-quote="DadOf5" data-source="post: 7422" data-attributes="member: 15"><p><strong>Padraic</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There is and isn't a certain amount of exaggeration regarding the fear you speak of. Allow me to explain that somewhat confusing statement. According to the history I was taught in school, the fear you speak of was prevalent from the early 1950s, when the Soviets were first manufacturing nuclear weapons, until about 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was probably the closest we ever came to a nuclear war. I remember a few years ago reading an interview with Castro where he stated that if the US had invaded Cuba that he would not have hesitated to use nuclear weapons against the US. I think after the crisis the fear started to subside. I was born in 1966, and while I remember the civil defense drills during my childhood, I don't remember anyone truly being afraid.</p><p></p><p>Really, the only time in my life that I remember being in fear of a nuclear war was during the collapse of the Soviet Union. I remember the reports of tanks in the streets of Moscow and being afraid that some hardline communist general would get a twitchy finger and order a launch to keep the communist government in power for a little longer.</p><p></p><p>Of course now we have the threat of nuclear terrorism, if not from traditional nuclear weapons then at least from so called dirty bombs. So the fear is still there somewhat, but its not an all pervading fear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DadOf5, post: 7422, member: 15"] [b]Padraic[/b] There is and isn't a certain amount of exaggeration regarding the fear you speak of. Allow me to explain that somewhat confusing statement. According to the history I was taught in school, the fear you speak of was prevalent from the early 1950s, when the Soviets were first manufacturing nuclear weapons, until about 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was probably the closest we ever came to a nuclear war. I remember a few years ago reading an interview with Castro where he stated that if the US had invaded Cuba that he would not have hesitated to use nuclear weapons against the US. I think after the crisis the fear started to subside. I was born in 1966, and while I remember the civil defense drills during my childhood, I don't remember anyone truly being afraid. Really, the only time in my life that I remember being in fear of a nuclear war was during the collapse of the Soviet Union. I remember the reports of tanks in the streets of Moscow and being afraid that some hardline communist general would get a twitchy finger and order a launch to keep the communist government in power for a little longer. Of course now we have the threat of nuclear terrorism, if not from traditional nuclear weapons then at least from so called dirty bombs. So the fear is still there somewhat, but its not an all pervading fear. [/QUOTE]
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