| From one who was serving on a nuclear AA msl site during the Cuban crisis, I can tell you that both leaders were close to two minutes and some seconds from all out nuclear war. There were no troops massing, there were no Navy task forces maneuvering for a battle.There was the deadly silence of "boomers" headed for open Oceans and silo doors sliding open. I watched the DEFCON lights run up toward red and instead of the code "blazing skies" used in tests, "launch" was on everyone's minds. I now have to believe that most people have forgotten the cold fear of Nuclear war. It's sort of like playing with a rattlesnake, if you've never been bitten, you get more and more careless.
__________________  “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill |