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RE: Concept of deterrence - Ninurta - 03-29-2022 (03-28-2022, 10:00 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:(03-28-2022, 08:59 PM)Ninurta Wrote: There is also a manual written for Congress that I had called "The Effects of Nuclear War", but I haven't found a link to it yet as an online resource. Other stuff I had, detailing Soviet capabilities and weapons systems is surely out of date by now - all my access to it was back in the early 80's. That's the one - thanks! Now I have it in PDF. . RE: Concept of deterrence - Ninurta - 03-29-2022 (03-28-2022, 10:20 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote:(03-28-2022, 09:44 PM)BIAD Wrote:(03-28-2022, 05:07 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: I for one am not interested in a daily Social Control dose of "medicine". They had that in the film "Equilibrium", and in the end it didn't work out so well for the controllers when a few key people went off their meds. . RE: Concept of deterrence - Ninurta - 03-29-2022 (03-29-2022, 03:37 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote:(03-29-2022, 02:51 AM)Snarl Wrote:(03-28-2022, 09:14 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(03-28-2022, 10:45 AM)Snarl Wrote: Very very hard to get things going against a threat with such a short flight time. Thank you for those videos. They took us back, some of us, anyhow. Several of the members here grew up under the threat of "nuclear annihilation", myself included. We remember the days of the drills to hide under your desk at school to save you from "the bomb". The running joke back then was that the purpose of the exercise was really just to get you into position to kiss your own ass goodbye. Regarding the last one, "A Day Called X" in Portland OR, I think that the nuclear annihilation of Portland would have been preferable to what has actually played out there... It may well be that I will never forgive the Soviets for not erasing Portland, LA, New York, Denver, and Chicago when they had the chance. It might have solved a whole lot of trouble the US is facing today, 50 or 60 years on. I personally think the rest of the problem areas would have figured out how the rabbit eats the cabbage if just the Big Five had been erased. But that's just me. I'm old and grouchy. ETA: I do like how they keep flashing on-screen "an attack is not taking place". No repeats of the "War off the Worlds" scenario. I liked the line "if the government does not survive, it's people do not survive". I thought that was bullshit then, and I still think it's bullshit now. The government comes from the People, not the other way round, so it's bass-ackwards. However, we realize that was 1957 style propaganda. In the actual event, since no plan survives first contact, their carefully crafted plan as presented would have gone all to shit inside 3 minutes. . RE: Concept of deterrence - Ninurta - 03-29-2022 (03-29-2022, 04:08 AM)guohua Wrote: If all else fails, you know who to send. Buckaroo Bonzai! Do it, baby! Ride that dragon to the end! . |