I thought this was a really good article until the last line: “Despite lots of saber rattling, a nuclear war between the United States and the former USSR was also doubtful back in the 60s, but that didn’t keep people from building bomb shelters.”
Obviously somebody who wasn’t alive in the 1960’s. Nuclear war was a VERY REAL POSSIBILITY during most of the cold war. Just because it DIDN’T happen is no reason to mock the idea that it could have happened. A civil war probably won’t happen in the US, but it would be foolish to say it couldn’t.
There was also a time in the 1920s that people thought there would be a war between Britain and the U.S. It didn’t materialize, in part because Britain broke off its alliance with Japan.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:54 am
I thought this was a really good article until the last line: “Despite lots of saber rattling, a nuclear war between the United States and the former USSR was also doubtful back in the 60s, but that didn’t keep people from building bomb shelters.”
Obviously somebody who wasn’t alive in the 1960’s. Nuclear war was a VERY REAL POSSIBILITY during most of the cold war. Just because it DIDN’T happen is no reason to mock the idea that it could have happened. A civil war probably won’t happen in the US, but it would be foolish to say it couldn’t.
March 30th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
There was also a time in the 1920s that people thought there would be a war between Britain and the U.S. It didn’t materialize, in part because Britain broke off its alliance with Japan.