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yagotme

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1. Seems lots of people want war,
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 06:47 PM
Mar 2022

until it's time to do war stuff. Time erases memories, as well as die-offs, Those that remember the nuclear scare, are a little more fuzzy about the details, and the younger generation has nothing but a few videos and some pictures to relate.

Seems lots of people want war, yagotme Mar 2022 #1
I am going to disagree with you. Dan Mar 2022 #9
Unfortunately drmeow Mar 2022 #36
I remember that, during the run up to the Iraq invasion, wnylib Mar 2022 #44
My Memory Of That Event... ProfessorGAC Mar 2022 #52
Sanity is not the issue. yagotme Mar 2022 #54
Absolutely true, but nuclear war is only unthinkable if both sides know the other side is willing to Martin68 Mar 2022 #18
A hydrogen bomb makes what we dropped Mr.Bill Mar 2022 #2
They made a mathmatical error on the potential yield for the first Castle Bravo test at Bikini pecosbob Mar 2022 #7
Both my father and uncle worked on Minuteman missiles in the sixties pecosbob Mar 2022 #3
Incidents with non-nuclear Minuteman missiles? Or perhaps you are referring to the extremely close Martin68 Mar 2022 #19
More like maintenance problems and issues...near-repeats of the Titan explosion in Chico in 1962 pecosbob Mar 2022 #24
I witnessed one such test as a kid Bobstandard Mar 2022 #4
it was Barium kiri Mar 2022 #25
Its the color of the end of the world Bobstandard Mar 2022 #34
I often wonder what radiation from wnylib Mar 2022 #45
Guy I worked with was in the army in the 50's. Bunches of soldiers were sent to Utah and ordered 3Hotdogs Mar 2022 #5
3Hotdogs, I'm not sure I understand what a red X-ray means. His body changed color? Was burned? Martin68 Mar 2022 #20
Just like in the cartoons, the ultra-bright light shines right through your flesh pecosbob Mar 2022 #26
It was how he saw his own body. 3Hotdogs Mar 2022 #33
My father went through the fallout from an atomic explosion in the South Pacific when he was Dial H For Hero Mar 2022 #6
My BIL was a radar navigator on a SAC B52. His crew's plan was to drop their load on the target in mobeau69 Mar 2022 #8
My father-in-law was used as a guinea pig in nuclear weapons testing... hunter Mar 2022 #10
Their eyewitness accounts is pretty horrific Dukkha Mar 2022 #13
What kind of psychopaths set up these experiments? hunter Mar 2022 #17
Psychopaths who needed to know the effects of radiation and a nuclear bomb. The fact is, no one Martin68 Mar 2022 #21
Nagasaki was the experiment. That was the "bomb of the future" and the psychopaths... hunter Mar 2022 #48
I've done a lot of research on the topic. I believe the preponderance of the evidence suggests Japan Martin68 Mar 2022 #49
Neither the U.S. invasion forces nor the Japanese knew those bombs were coming. hunter Mar 2022 #53
Yes, history is messy and difficult to categorize as good vs evil or black and white. Martin68 Mar 2022 #55
There were also studies that used disabled children thucythucy Mar 2022 #35
Some talked, especially online Warpy Mar 2022 #30
In the story I heard everyone volunteered except the poor cameraman pecosbob Mar 2022 #27
Young men "volunteer" for a lot of stuff in the military. hunter Mar 2022 #32
Sounds like he got significantly irradiated Shermann Mar 2022 #11
How would you know if at the time you were irradiated with UV, gamma or X-rays? Martin68 Mar 2022 #23
After further review, he probably didn't get that much. Shermann Mar 2022 #47
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." quoted by Oppenheimer as he niyad Mar 2022 #12
We'll never know it's coming bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #14
I hope not Warpy Mar 2022 #16
My exact plan. MuseRider Mar 2022 #50
Just bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. It's called "taking the position." I did it with my Martin68 Mar 2022 #22
Yeah, MuseRider Mar 2022 #51
This is what it could be like: Polybius Mar 2022 #38
Will theft and plunder begin before the strike, or after? bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #41
After Polybius Mar 2022 #43
Where is the best place to be during an atomic explosion? spike jones Mar 2022 #15
In a nuclear war the best place to be is at ground zero. marie999 Mar 2022 #40
Can't remember all of the Nuclear Holocaust documentaries/movies I saw in the the 60's to 70's, but marked50 Mar 2022 #28
I remember people building nuclear bomb shelters and keeping them supplied so they could live ... L. Coyote Mar 2022 #29
I remember the Bomb Shelter thing too. marked50 Mar 2022 #31
Why didn't we end the USSR when it was hinted that they were working on a nuke? Polybius Mar 2022 #37
Because that would be an act of war! L. Coyote Mar 2022 #39
But a good act of war Polybius Mar 2022 #42
Russia had just kicked Hitler's ass and smashed his face into the icy mud. hunter Mar 2022 #46
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