Good Job This Guy Wasn't A Jobsworth!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24280831

[sp1814]

TTT

Yes - he was featured in a documentary about the cold war on BBC4 a few weeks ago. Deeply scary.

[Gromit]

Maybe we should thank those scruffy lesbians at Greenham Common for ridding our land of foreigners' Nuclear Missiles round about the same time, early eighties.

[mushroom25]

Gromit, whilst it might be nice to think that a group of scruffy lesbians could influence world defence policy, it's not actually true. The removal of WMDs from Greenham Common had nothing to do with the peace camp, but everything to do with this:-
http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/inf/

[boxtops]

They weren't all lesbians either, I knew some of them.

[Gromit]

Mushy,

I know that. I was just trying to rib Tora. :-)

[Hopkirk]

This story reminds me of the beginning of the film 'Wargames' where the American refuses to follow orders to launch a counter strike.

[Gromit]

Boxy

I know that. I was just trying to rib Tora. :-)

[Hopkirk]

Funnily enough the film I mention 'Wargames' was released in 1984, so would have been in production the same year as this incident.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm honoured Gromit that you consider me worth "ribbing", as I understand it the ladies in question stayed on several years after the base had been decommissioned, leading me to believe that the presence of the missiles were in fact not the primary concern more an excuse for a makeshift shanty town!

[youngmafbog]

That was very restrained of you Tora, I was expecting a different comment at the end!

I suspect there must have been a fair few near misses like this.

[Svejk]

Ah, halcyon days. I spent a marvellous year at Greenham attacking the fence.

[ludwig]

^ Why's that Svejk - wouldn't the lesbians let you out?

I thought there was a sort of 'batphone' in the whitehouse and kremlin that either end could pick up to check whether they were actually attacking each other or not, so they wouldn't destroy the planet by accident.

[Svejk]

I was building the silos,Ludwig.
I was trying to sneak out for a pint.
All that 'radiation' had a bad effect on people. Have you noticed how small they are in Newbury ?