the bombs will begin falling in 15 minutes."
Posted on 05/22/2004 6:23:06 PM PDT by zinochka
Yeah, my bad. I commented based on knowledge from a previous article that I had read about it, without reading this one completely. This article implies that he bucked procedure.
Hey, a little nukey never hurt anybody.
(Famous story about how Brezhnev was hosting Georges Pompedieu on a tour at the Russian rocket launch site in Kazakhstan... "And dis is the button we would push to launch a missile on Paris. Ooops!" ... and he pressed it.)
Actually this was one of the more popular of the many nuclear scenarios in vogue during the cold war. A sub-orbital nuclear explosion producing a blinding EMP burst would be devastating to the attacked country's ability to respond in kind. This first missile launch would be quickly followed by the "main attack", much like the scenario mentioned in the article. Scary.
Oh Ronly Bonly! They would of had to hold him up to press it! The real urban legend is that Brezhnev was really DEAD and it was his mummy!
Ay-yi, I just got it, a little nukey! That's BAD!!!!!
Hey, a little nukey never hurt anybody.
(Famous story about how Brezhnev was hosting Georges Pompedieu on a tour at the Russian rocket launch site in Kazakhstan... "And dis is the button we would push to launch a missile on Paris. Ooops!" ... and he pressed it.)
The story appeared here on FR a while back. There are similar stories from SAC. Maybe the only reason we're still here is we have some capability of judgement. As we automate our military, should we wonder if the robots will be so capable?
I do remember that song but just ca'nt quiet recall the tune. But I never realized the words were about nuclear war!
Just the life on it.
Do you really believe that a Lt. Col. would be trusted with that responsibility
Yes. But usually young enlisted-men are the misseleers in russia and the U.S, I saw that just recently on the History Channell. In fact, in the U.S. Air Force there are even young women in the missle-silos. (I hope they stay home if they have P.M.S, unless it's aimed at Al-Quaida! LOL! )
"I'd piss on a sparkplug if it would do any good."
And 1962 is never mentioned.
I agree Zin. Thanks for posting this. Welcome.
Nice moral equivalence in action.
You see, in 1940s, Hitler and the rest of Europe did not trust each other. It led to dangerous consequences: Hitler invaded. See, if the rest of the world were more trusting, the outcome would be different.
What scum writes such things for NASA?
It is a shame that the Soviets really didn't understand the American mind. Peace through strength was a policy to make our adversaries understand that a strike against us meant their own suicide. We had no interest in a first nuclear strike that would lead to our own destruction.
***Nuclear missiles will never destroy the world. It is God's and He will destroy it in His time.***
Who is to say how He will choose to destroy it? God has many instruments at His disposal.
"Nuclear missiles will never destroy the world.
Just the life on it.
Oh, for the faint of heart. God says that on the last day He will raise the "living and the dead". How do you explain that there is will be no life left?
Honors due.
Saved the world ? No
Saved the planet from a 500 year Dark Age ? ABSOLUTELY
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