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Incoming ICBMs would look very different (something like bright meteors). Edit: I know, through the eyes of an 8 year old. My city was a target of the U.S. nu
by java-man 5y ago
Incoming ICBMs would look very different (something like bright meteors).
Edit: I know, through the eyes of an 8 year old. My city was a target of the U.S. nuclear missiles, so the I had the same fear. Saw nuclear exposions all the time in my dreams.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WagAKBuc_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WagAKBuc_o
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7X89a531CY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7X89a531CY
- tandr 5y agoSource?
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoThanks, but I don't really think that's the point at all. The parent commenter relates that they were 8 years old and not a missile identification expert at that age; but stressed about by something that actually was a realistic fear.
- Diederich 5y ago> 8 years-old
- burnafter182 5y agoHey old friend, Do you think, that having been through Cold-war era conditioning and propaganda, that you're sort of sensitized to the "modern Russia tropes"? I ask because, well Russia seems like a shithole. A sort of noncompete on the global scale outside their natural resource stockpiles, but the US demagogues seem to like to point fingers there and I see it as more or less a propaganda tool. I suspect it's aimed at the generations that experienced the cold war, but I'm inducing hard.
- java-man 5y agoI think a lot of people miss the Cold War. There was this far away, monolythic, scary enemy, that can be reliably used to justify any amount of military expenses. And to a certain point it was, of course, since up until 1953 they were expecting a "world revolution". The situation changed ever so slightly after 1985, culminating in dissolution of USSR. Good riddance! And now the same forces - or new incarnation of the same forces - are working again to create that image of an absolute enemy - on both sides. It's just so easy.