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The Soviets were parking nukes in Cuba in striking distance of the White House. If that's not legitimately terrifying to you, I just don't know.
by TurdF3rguson 5mo ago
The Soviets were parking nukes in Cuba in striking distance of the White House. If that's not legitimately terrifying to you, I just don't know.
- zorked 5mo agoNot anymore than the US being able to strike worldwide to this very moment. They are the only country that has used nuclear bombs against civilians. The big problem is having one country be able to do it without deterrents and with impunity. MAD is a good thing, if anyone will have those things at all.
- TurdF3rguson 5mo agoOne of those things is scarier to American school children and their teachers than the other.
- soperj 5mo agoscariest thing for American School children and their teachers is the way that the second amendment is administered.
- lostlogin 5mo agoSchool children aren’t easily scared by boogie men, but maybe they should be. The Iranian girls found this out.
- pjc50 5mo agoObjectively, nukes have killed 0 American school children and their teachers while legal constitutional American gun owners have killed thousands every year. The main natural predator of Americans is other Americans.
- Tepix 5mo agoTheir nukes are still within striking distance.
- thombat 5mo agoWhich directly followed the USA stationing Jupiter missiles in Turkey with the range to strike Moscow. As part of the mutual climb down from the missile crisis the USA removed the Jupiters, as both sides then understood the wisdom of avoiding hot brinkmanship
- GJim 5mo agoIt's genuinely amazing how few people in the USA appear to be aware of what you have written. It'd be nice to put jingoism aside for a change.
- satao 5mo agoamericans are the most brainwashed people on earth when you consider how naïve of their own propaganda they are
- amanaplanacanal 5mo agoWhich in hindsight seems like just a sideshow, since both sides already had ICBMs in development that can strike from anywhere in the world.
- thombat 5mo agoBut a much shorter flight time compared to ICBMs coming from the USA, and being launched from unhardened sites, so looking more like a first-strike decapitation weapon than a retaliatory MAD capability. Of course submarine-launched ballistic missiles have the same flight time if launched from the Black Sea or off the Eastern Seaboard, but at least they have a strong second-strike potential.