Interesting video of how a nuclear war might start!

[Rainger99]

It discusses several times where we were on the brink of nuclear war!!

This puts navigating roundabouts and falling home prices in perspective.

https://youtu.be/wmP3MBjsx20?si=5KfNAWIbA3zCIKHf

[Keefelane66]

You left out the dog poop threads.

[Two Bills]

Notice
Office of Civilian Defense Washington DC

Instructions to Patrons on Premises in Case of Nuclear Bomb Attack
Upon the First Warning:
1. Stay Clear of all Windows.
2. Keep Hands Free of Glass, Bottles, Cigarettes, Etc.
3. Stand Away From Bar, Tables, Orchestra, Equipmet and Furniture.
4. Loosen Necktie, Unbutton Coat And Any Other Restrictive Clothing.
5. Remove Glasses, Empty Pockets of all Sharp Objects such as Pens, Pencils, Etc.
6. Immediately Upon Seeing the Brilliant Flash of Nuclear Explosion, Bend Over and Place Your Head Firmly Between Your Legs.
7. Then Kiss Your Ass Goodbye.

[bsloan1960]

It discusses several times where we were on the brink of nuclear war!!

This puts navigating roundabouts and falling home prices in perspective.

https://youtu.be/wmP3MBjsx20?si=5KfNAWIbA3zCIKHf
George Carlin said something like, "I don't care if there is nuclear war s long as I can still get french fries". Concerns about roundabouts will always be an issue until the day a bomb drops here.

[Blueblaze]

Most people don't realize it, but we nearly went to nuclear war in early 1980 over a computer glitch. The only reason I know about it was that I was an avionics technician at a remote FB-111A SAC base at the time. But you can find some mention on the internet, today. Wiki gets it wrong and says it happened in Nov '79. They also say the glitch was detected immediately -- which is absolute B.S..

We were called to work in the middle of the night for an "surprise alert", which we later learned was a real computer glitch that indicated that thousands of Soviet missiles were in-bound. We launched the Alert Birds immediately (10 planes always armed and ready), and then every flyable plane on base within the next hour -- and then waited to die. If it was a real war, none of us had any hope, since the base was known to be the #3 nuclear target in North America. FB-111A's were the only nuclear bombers in the inventory capable of evading Soviet defenses, due to their "terrain-following" radar. Bombers, not missiles, were the first wave in any attack, because they could be recalled.

There was a lottery every year to see who got to survive a nuclear war. The winners were the guys who were dispatched to a secret recovery field, to receive any planes that survived the attack, so they could be reloaded and sent back. During my entire hitch at that base and countless "alerts", that was the only time I ever saw the lottery winners actually load up and leave. This was also the only "surprise alert" I ever experienced where we didn't know about it a month in advance.

We later learned that the Alert Birds had actually penetrated Soviet Airspace by the time they received the recall order -- less than 20 minutes from Moscow.

So if you lived in any major city in America, you more than likely came within 20 minutes of being a casualty of Nuclear War in 1980, and never knew about it until today.