My Dad was a BUFF pilot. Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Failsafe Points, the whole nine yards. They flew every day out of SAC bases with live nukes. Bases in Ohio, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Michigan, California, Washington, Idaho, South Dakota... the list goes on.
We are a nation of wimps, today.
My Dad was a BUFF pilot. Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Failsafe Points, the whole nine yards. They flew every day out of SAC bases with live nukes. Bases in Ohio, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Michigan, California, Washington, Idaho, South Dakota... the list goes on. We are a nation of wimps, today.
Another example: The recent shipment of "helicopter batteries" to Taiwan. To read the news reports, you'd think that we fired our entire ICBM arsenal at them.
Anything with the name "nuclear" in it is enough to have a modern news reporter peeing in his pants.