tango <tango@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Gary <kw4z@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> 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 cir***stances, 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?
>>
> Well, you can argue that the major industrial development in India and
> China and environmental pollutants such as Freon and many other things
> which were not available until the last hundred years are not changing
> the environment if you wish but I think common sense, observation of
> what smog did to
> Global Warming and pollution are entirely different than the fear
> spread, in many cases irresponsibly, about the threat of nuclear war
> in the fifties and sixties.
>
>
That should read what smog did to peoples health, and what chemicals and
other agents have done to human health as well as other creatures would
lead most people to believe otherwise.
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