Global Threats, nothing new.

I remember days in the 1960's when building a backyard Bomb shelter was as
common as thoughts of a tornado shelter in Tornado alley.  CD or Civil
Defense drills and air raid sirens that sounded each Saturday Morning at
11
o'clock AM sharp and shelters below downtown Chattanooga Buildings filled
with supplies and food.  I also remember the duck and cover drills during
school all during an uncertain world that Nuclear War was unthinkable but
not improbable and at times such as that fateful October 1962 when we were
literally a hair away from actual firing of weapons.  Not that this would
be
the worst scenario with weapons such as biological and diseases stocked
away
in arsenals waiting for use.

Today we have people running all kinds of scenarios and hypothesis and
theories about how we are going to kill ourselves and the world around us.
Global Cooling, Global Warming, Ozone Holes etc and yet with the end of
the
recognized "Cold War" no one ever conceives of possibility of Nuclear War
anymore.  No doubt life is fragile and our society with it along with the
other nations we call neighbors.  Whether it be China or Russia or some
rouge country accidents can and do happen when humans are at the controls.
Little did we know how close we were to a Russian launch of their missiles
during Reagan's term in the 80's when we launched a weather rocket over
Europe with Russia's knowledge yet they failed to notify one base that
detected the launch and identified it as an attack.  Russia then and now
has
an all or nothing launch system meaning it's launch everything at once or
none.  

Personally I look at things from a Religious standpoint so my worries may
be
different than others but I think if any of the above world threatening
disasters were to actually happen then the lucky ones would be the ones
that
were not around to pick up the pieces.

I wrote this while watching the History Channel's broadcast showing
preparation locations that were in the old USSR preparing for Nuclear War
with the US and just thought how long it was before people actually
worried
about Nuclear conflict and worried about just the USSR.  Now we have
actually invaded a country something that people years ago never thought
possible.  Last year I heard that Huntsville is actually using Homeland
Security money to create a shelter underground that would protect
thousands
of people from Nuclear or Biological hazards or terrors.  We seem not
willing to invade another country, under the right circumstances, and I
wonder just how willing we would be to think we could launch first and
actually win a Nuclear War?  Sometimes technology can be wonderful but
other
times it can lull you into thinking the unthinkable yet again.

The old song goes "There are 50 ways to leave your lover" I wonder how
many
ways there are to end life on earth as we know it today?