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How Did You Cope With Fear About Nuclear War?
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I’m too young to remember the cold war! But I have felt a lot of dread since february about the chances of nuclear armageddon…. not just over ukraine but taiwan too… the risk seemed to go up very very quickly
It made me think that if it isn’t this or that particular crisis then it will just be another one that causes someone to push the button, then that’s it… we had a near-miss in 1962 and another in the 1980s and these weapons have only existed for 80 years… if we keep having “near misses” every 30-40 years then eventually one will go badly wrong and that’s it…
If you remember the cold war how did you cope with fear of nuclear war?
It made me think that if it isn’t this or that particular crisis then it will just be another one that causes someone to push the button, then that’s it… we had a near-miss in 1962 and another in the 1980s and these weapons have only existed for 80 years… if we keep having “near misses” every 30-40 years then eventually one will go badly wrong and that’s it…
If you remember the cold war how did you cope with fear of nuclear war?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well we just lived with it. That is how life was, I was born at the end of the 1940s and t.b.h. no-one spoke much about WW2, especially my parents. Mr. J2 was born 1933 and was an evacuee and watched bombs coming down and then did Nat. Service marching up and down the Iron Curtain, but that's just how life was. I saw the Iron Curtain in 1964 and that was scary, but, again, we just got on with living.
Yes, the Cuba crisis was worrying, but there was nothing we could do about it so we were all at school as usual during that day.
Really, I can't say much more, it was there and we knew that, but we got on with living and didn't think about it really. no point.
When the Berlin Wall came down I kept my young daughters up to watch the process on TV and, yes, I cried with relief, but that's about it.
Putin is a new threat and more uncertain.
You cope by more or less ignoring it. Is that any help?
Yes, the Cuba crisis was worrying, but there was nothing we could do about it so we were all at school as usual during that day.
Really, I can't say much more, it was there and we knew that, but we got on with living and didn't think about it really. no point.
When the Berlin Wall came down I kept my young daughters up to watch the process on TV and, yes, I cried with relief, but that's about it.
Putin is a new threat and more uncertain.
You cope by more or less ignoring it. Is that any help?
if it happens, it happens - personally, my thinking is that one of his generals/insiders would take him out if Putain ordered the attack, the common-sense telling him 'we'll be nuclear ash if we go ahead with this.'
I would be more worried about what Xi Jin Ping could get up to over Taiwan or wherever... I have met him twice when he was Party sec for Zhejiang and, never mind the surprise that he went on to the top job impressive that he was, I wouldn't have thought that he could press the big red button or turn the key..... However, all is possible.
I would be more worried about what Xi Jin Ping could get up to over Taiwan or wherever... I have met him twice when he was Party sec for Zhejiang and, never mind the surprise that he went on to the top job impressive that he was, I wouldn't have thought that he could press the big red button or turn the key..... However, all is possible.
As others have said there's nothing we can do so we ignored it. I was in the RAF during the sixties, serving on a station that operated squadrons of the nuclear deterrent, the V bomber force. Because of this we knew our station was a target. There was only one way to deal with it and that was to carry on doing what we were paid to do, our job.
It makes absolute sense... i do find myself dwelling on it though even though we are all powerless
Perhaps it's "new" for me... the chances of them being used seemed very remote to young me as the CW had just ended... it seems almost inevitable now!
the quote about the tightrope is chilling bednobs... where is it from?
Perhaps it's "new" for me... the chances of them being used seemed very remote to young me as the CW had just ended... it seems almost inevitable now!
the quote about the tightrope is chilling bednobs... where is it from?
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