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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:03:02 PM EDT
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Does anybody secretly wish the Cold War had gone hot? We had a lot of very cool technology that would have had a *very* high entertainment value had we started popping that shit off. Biggest problem would have been no LiveLeak yet. Putting that aside, thoughts? |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:04:08 PM EDT
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Considering that most of Europe would have ended up a complete fucking wasteland, I guess a silver lining is that the muslim immigrants wouldn't want to move there.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:04:08 PM EDT
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Hell NO!!! I was sitting in the Fulda Gap for 4 years of the Cold War. Since the Soviets were going to use nukes and chemical weapons from the start, Germany would have been FUBAR. Probably with Russia, America and the remainder of Europe, not far behind. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:04:54 PM EDT
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Some people really do just want to watch the world burn. But I’m not one of them, so no.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:05:01 PM EDT
[#5]
Fuck no. Look at Japanese TV sometime. That's what radiation does to people.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:05:36 PM EDT
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"Very high entertainment value"? In war? No. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:05:43 PM EDT
[#7]
Hard pass, broseph.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:05:59 PM EDT
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Sort of just for the entertainment. Where I was in Germany they said we had under an hour life expectancy so there is that. The impression I had was that we would get rolled up until reinforcements could arrive. The Reforger concept. ETA: I was in the gap 81-82 then in 3AD G-3 83 & 84. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:06:51 PM EDT
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No. I can't imagine anyone thinking that the prospect of deaths of millions of people was a cool thing
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:12:09 PM EDT
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I've been on Arf a looong time. And this is possibly one of the stupidest threads I've seen started here. And yes, I fondly remember airplane on a treadmill. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:12:22 PM EDT
[#11]
If the libs get control of this country then whats the difference
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:14:01 PM EDT
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If the libs get control of this country then whats the difference I don't remember a lot of nuclear explosions and chemical/biological weapons and millions of deaths.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:14:20 PM EDT
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This has got to be the stupidest thing I’ve read on the internet in at least the last several years...more likely, ever.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:14:37 PM EDT
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Fuck no. Look at Japanese TV sometime. That's what radiation does to people.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:14:47 PM EDT
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No Are you crazy? |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:15:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: MAD wasn’t real. It was later proven to be a gross miscalculation. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:17:37 PM EDT
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Considering that most of Europe would have ended up a complete fucking wasteland, I guess a silver lining is that the muslim immigrants wouldn't want to move there. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:19:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: MAD wasn’t real. It was later proven to be a gross miscalculation. If you mean everything turned to irradiated glass, then probably not real. If you mean civilization reverting to the early 19th century after the food on your shelves, the medicine in your cabinets, and the fuel in your car and generator runs out, then yep.... The realization of the true consequences of it "going hot" by both sides is the only thing that prevented it... Try to visualize the eye of a Hurricane Katrina hitting every population center, power plant, communications hub, military facility and oil refinery in the US simultaneously...... |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:19:34 PM EDT
[#19]
Well, I really like the Fallout games, but yeah, no.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:20:32 PM EDT
[#20]
Absolutely NOT!
I lived 30 miles from Vandenburg AFB, 90 miles from L.A. With the aiming systems the Russians had I was a near miss. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:20:49 PM EDT
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Fuck no. Look at Japanese TV sometime. That's what radiation does to people. The following is a Link to an Edo period NSFW tentacle porn woodcut. Their fuckery is not our fault. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:22:56 PM EDT
[#22]
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:23:01 PM EDT
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No Are you crazy? Can imagine being in the Fulda gap when the Russians crossed the border? Fuck that |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:25:53 PM EDT
[#24]
War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach. - Pindar
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:26:31 PM EDT
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This Can imagine being in the Fulda gap when the Russians crossed the border? Fuck that Quote HistoryQuoted:
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No Are you crazy? Can imagine being in the Fulda gap when the Russians crossed the border? Fuck that 
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:27:37 PM EDT
[#26]
No one who was alive then and aware of what a hot war would have meant would ever wish that, secretly or otherwise.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:28:54 PM EDT
[#27]
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War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach. - Pindar |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:30:17 PM EDT
[#28]
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Soviets were going to use nukes from Day 1. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:32:17 PM EDT
[#29]
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Does anybody secretly wish the Cold War had gone hot? We had a lot of very cool technology that would have had a *very* high entertainment value had we started popping that shit off. Biggest problem would have been no LiveLeak yet. Putting that aside, thoughts? This is one of them. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:35:56 PM EDT
[#30]
If a sneak attach was launched we would have had a pretty good chance catching them with their pants down.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:36:28 PM EDT
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Fuck no. Look at Japanese TV sometime. That's what radiation does to people. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:39:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:40:11 PM EDT
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The opening salvo as Warsaw Pact forces headed towards the border was going to be nukes against NATO's HQ and forward operating points, air bases and nuclear weapons depots to decapitate NATO, break down the initial operation, prevent NATO air forces from retaliating and prevent and nuclear counterstrike. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Soviets were going to use nukes from Day 1. I think the likelihood is extremely high that it would have very quickly escalated into strategic ICBM launches, even if the soviets might have wanted a "limited" nuclear engagement. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:41:17 PM EDT
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I've been on Arf a looong time. And this is possibly one of the stupidest threads I've seen started here. And yes, I fondly remember airplane on a treadmill. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:41:19 PM EDT
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I was in from '84-91. I figured I'd be dust in the wind from nukes.
'86 - Norfolk or the Med '87-'90 - King's Bay  Kansas - Dust in the Wind (Official Video) |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:41:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: MAD wasn’t real. It was later proven to be a gross miscalculation. By whom? How? You know it is still in play today? |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:42:10 PM EDT
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As all male members of my family were either army or TA at the time, no. I'll stick to reading about it in Tom Clancy books and watching videos
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:43:04 PM EDT
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Proven? By whom? How? You know it is still in play today? Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: MAD wasn’t real. It was later proven to be a gross miscalculation. By whom? How? You know it is still in play today? I am not sure he understands the military/strategic concept of M.A.D. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:43:39 PM EDT
[#39]
I watched nuke armed B52's launch. I had an M16 to kill enemy and a pistol to kill myself in case I survived the expected nuke response and had signs of radiation poisoning. Your thread is sick and you should feel bad.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:47:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I assume he means the media hysteria that the earth would be destroyed 10x over, or whatever bullshit that was. I am not sure he understands the military/strategic concept of M.A.D. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:48:45 PM EDT
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War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach. - Pindar |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:49:21 PM EDT
[#42]
So your only regret for this not happening at the time, was that you wouldn’t have liveleak to watch from the comfort of your basement?
I think you have no real world experience in any such matters and are most likely at least slightly MR. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:50:09 PM EDT
[#43]
You sound like a psychopath.
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Posted: 10/2/2019 4:50:15 PM EDT
[#44]
[Youtube]gJU5DDh0DEc[/Youtube]
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Posted: 10/2/2019 5:00:46 PM EDT
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They were like that long before we dropped the bomb. The following is a Link to an Edo period NSFW tentacle porn woodcut. Their fuckery is not our fault. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Fuck no. Look at Japanese TV sometime. That's what radiation does to people. The following is a Link to an Edo period NSFW tentacle porn woodcut. Their fuckery is not our fault. Quoted:
As all male members of my family were either army or TA at the time, no. I'll stick to reading about it in Tom Clancy books and watching videos  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1m7opOGSmQ |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 5:03:02 PM EDT
[#46]
LOL
no. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 5:11:11 PM EDT
[#47]
Fuck no.
And this book was not even an all out exchange. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 5:13:42 PM EDT
[#48]
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Fuck no. https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1183080736i/1375759._UY630_SR1200,630_.jpg And this book was not even an all out exchange. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 5:16:15 PM EDT
[#49]
Well, since I spent a lot of time about as close to the GDR border as you could have gotten... all I have to say is...
Naw, I’m good fam. |
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Posted: 10/2/2019 5:17:22 PM EDT
[#50]
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Team Yankee is kind of a companion novel |
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