I just watched one of the most chilling documentaries ever

[DanOregon]

Comrade McKittrickov, after careful consideration I've come to the conclusion that your computer system sucks.

 

[pallister]

Nuking Milwaukee. Hmm, now there's an idea.

 

[Chi City 81]

Comrade McKittrickov, after careful consideration I've come to the conclusion that your computer system sucks.

I don't have to take that from you, you pig-eyed sack of shirt.

 

[mike311gd]

That description makes me want to see the Scare. I was only a few months old then, so I "missed" damn near all of the tension, so to speak. I had no idea we were that close to exchanging bombs with the Soviet Union. I knew the tensions were high, but wow.

Thank you, sir.

Mike ... none of us had any idea we were that close.

We all had the fear in the back of our minds, getting nuked is probably the central tenet of our collective psyche to this day, which is one reason the lesser lights of our nation are continually on the lookout for real or imagined bogeymen, but it still freaked me out to hear I was that close to getting vaporized 24 years after the fact.

I lived in Milwaukee in '83 and I stood no chance. I remember the Milwaukee Journal did a story in that period about what would happen if Milwaukee got hit by a nuke. I lived just north of County Stadium and I was in the Probable Vaporization-to-Burning To Death zone if the nuke was dropped downtown. I remember when that came out, my buddies and I hoped to God we just got vaporized.

That's what it was like if you were younger. The early 80s were not unlike the early 50s in that regard.

That's just crazy to think about, at least from my perspective. Until New York was hit in 2001, I never thought about anything happening to me and my town; I lived in the invincible, stress-free bubble where nothing was going to touch me. To some extent, I still live my life that way. But reading or hearing something like that kind of puts things in perspective a bit. Like at any moment, shirt can change and shirt can end.

I'm glad I wasn't old enough to understand what was going on back then. It sounds like a frightening time.

 

[BYH]

Good Lord, Bubbler, are you just one big giant pussy or what?

You and six or seven of your friends could have beaten the Russians. Even if one of them turned out to be batshirt crazy and one was actually spying for the Russians.

Why, in the northeast, we went to school every day hoping the Russians would attack our schools so we could kick their ass.

sack up bubs.

 

[friend of a friend]

Comrade McKittrickov, after careful consideration I've come to the conclusion that your computer system sucks.

I don't have to take that from you, you pig-eyed sack of shirt.

Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education

 

[Norman Stansfield]

WOLVERINES!!!

 

[PhilaYank36]

I think I saw this guy in one of the interviews:

And just for the heck of it:

 

[Angola!]

That description makes me want to see the Scare. I was only a few months old then, so I "missed" damn near all of the tension, so to speak. I had no idea we were that close to exchanging bombs with the Soviet Union. I knew the tensions were high, but wow.

Thank you, sir.

Mike ... none of us had any idea we were that close.

We all had the fear in the back of our minds, getting nuked is probably the central tenet of our collective psyche to this day, which is one reason the lesser lights of our nation are continually on the lookout for real or imagined bogeymen, but it still freaked me out to hear I was that close to getting vaporized 24 years after the fact.

I lived in Milwaukee in '83 and I stood no chance. I remember the Milwaukee Journal did a story in that period about what would happen if Milwaukee got hit by a nuke. I lived just north of County Stadium and I was in the Probable Vaporization-to-Burning To Death zone if the nuke was dropped downtown. I remember when that came out, my buddies and I hoped to God we just got vaporized.

That's what it was like if you were younger. The early 80s were not unlike the early 50s in that regard.

That's just crazy to think about, at least from my perspective. Until New York was hit in 2001, I never thought about anything happening to me and my town; I lived in the invincible, stress-free bubble where nothing was going to touch me. To some extent, I still live my life that way. But reading or hearing something like that kind of puts things in perspective a bit. Like at any moment, shirt can change and shirt can end.

I'm glad I wasn't old enough to understand what was going on back then. It sounds like a frightening time.

I wasn't old enough to feel what Bubbler went through, either, but growing up in Seattle it seemed like we were always afraid of earthquakes and volcanoes (Mt. St. Helens blew up the day after I was born. What a welcome to earth, huh?). So, in a sense I lived in fear growing up.
But I understand where you are coming from with Sept. 11.

 

[pallister]

A little off topic, but I was just reading the other day how colossally seismologists forked up by not predicting the Mt. St. Helens explosion.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Nuking Milwaukee. Hmm, now there's an idea.

Again?

 

[DanOregon]

Where'd you read that? They evacuated the area and had watch stations all over the place. I remember reading about that old guy up there on Moses Lake, Harry Truman, crusty old dude he was, who gave interviews saying "I'm not leaving." He died in the eruption.