Al Johnston
"Cheer up!" they said, "It could be worse!" So I did, and it was.
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Post by Al Johnston on Oct 24, 2008 14:51:41 GMT -4
The Soviets probably wouldn't have even tried to put missiles in Cuba in the first place if Nixon or Reagan were in the White House. Possibly, had Nixon or Reagan been smart enough not to emplace US missiles in Turkey first, which seems rather unlikely. The most frightening aspect was probably the misapprehension that US intelligence laboured under regarding the authority of the Soviet commander in Cuba to launch the missiles...
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Post by captain swoop on Oct 27, 2008 16:29:30 GMT -4
I remember seeing a website a few years ago that put forward the theory that the Bombs used on Japan were hoxes and it was just lots and lots of conventional explosives planted around the city.
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Post by Data Cable on Oct 28, 2008 2:43:26 GMT -4
I remember seeing a website a few years ago that put forward the theory that the Bombs used on Japan were hoxes and it was just lots and lots of conventional explosives planted around the city. I've heard the same somewhere, don't recall if it was some woo^2 website or a forum post. That's about the level at which I transition from "try to argue with them" to "just point and laugh."
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Post by dragonblaster on Oct 28, 2008 10:09:28 GMT -4
And this, of course, would be why people continued to die from the aftereffects and there were years of elevated rates of leukemia and spontaneous abortions.
Strange that that didn't happen in Tokyo or Dresden.
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Jason
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Post by Jason on Oct 28, 2008 10:44:02 GMT -4
If there were no atomic bombs, how do they explain Godzilla?
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Post by dragonblaster on Oct 28, 2008 11:58:08 GMT -4
Which overarching monolithic group's supposed to be behind this one? Last thing I heard, America, China, Russia, India, Israel, Britain, France and Pakistan weren't all on each other's birthday card lists. How come they're all playing the game together this time, unlike Apollo?
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Post by inconceivable on Oct 29, 2008 14:35:12 GMT -4
Don't forget the Bikini Islands. We all know that was fake. These explosions should have caused some cruncher waves dude. We should have been in the barrel all day not backen down or bailin' out. There would have been some gnarly heavys off the richter dude fer sure!! Just swells. Nobody had to cut out just rode lame sets.. No hankers. Where were the mundo ground swells from these nuclears. Nothin' was off the wall. No pounders. Nobody lonst ther baggys for sure = no nuclears.
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Post by laurel on Oct 29, 2008 15:18:41 GMT -4
Another hit-and-run post from Inconceivable.
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 29, 2008 15:25:50 GMT -4
...most likely...
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Post by jaydeehess on Nov 18, 2008 19:52:06 GMT -4
I have always marvelled at the idea that Kennedy was "soft" on communism given that he is the only POTUS ever faced with the very real and present danger of a nuke strike from the Soviets. He met the challenge and had the Soviets back down. Even if there was backroom negotiation the fact remains that what the entire world saw at the time was the Soviets retreating and an American 'win'.
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Post by Grand Lunar on Jan 6, 2009 8:34:04 GMT -4
Hate to have to reanimate a dead thread, but......
My main look into the Cuban missle crisis was in the film 'Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs'.
Many close calls happened; operators at an early warning station saw fragments from a Russian rocket carrying a Mars probe, and nearly concluded an attack was under way. A station that had been converted from peace time to war time use went ahead with a test launch of an unarmed missile. And Russia went ahead with a nuclear test with three missiles.
I'm sure there must be more than this, of course.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 6, 2009 16:34:48 GMT -4
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Post by Grand Lunar on Jan 7, 2009 12:39:17 GMT -4
Seen it!
Or do you mean the book?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 9, 2009 17:01:26 GMT -4
Haven't read the book, but the movie is pretty good for Historical Accuracy. I suspect the book would be even more so considering that most movie directors have this complusion to change something.
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Post by gillianren on Jan 9, 2009 17:48:37 GMT -4
I have the book, though I haven't read it yet. It's by Bobby Kennedy.
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