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| Subject | Re: Can anyone remember...? |
| From | Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> |
| References | <296b5f03-7f89-4198-8c51-b6c99c3fefcc@googlegroups.com> <nvGuwH.1HqK@kithrup.com> <b82ad1f2ca742922cb2b4b070c158fb4@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> <mump6q$5d5$1@panix3.panix.com> <nvM5wt.1sIK@kithrup.com> |
| Message-ID | <XnsA527A3CE39C94taustingmail@69.16.179.43> (permalink) |
| Organization | Forte - www.forteinc.com |
| Date | 2015-10-02 16:06 -0700 |
djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
news:nvM5wt.1sIK@kithrup.com:
> In article <mump6q$5d5$1@panix3.panix.com>,
> William December Starr <wdstarr@panix.com> wrote:
>>In article
>><b82ad1f2ca742922cb2b4b070c158fb4@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>,
>>Adamastor Glace Mortimer <nospam@no.invalid> said:
>>
>>> I read "Level 7" in either late grammar school or some time in
>>> high school. I forget if I read it before or after the Cuban
>>> Missile Crisis, when we damned near got to go through that
>>> entire scenario in real life, or in real death.
>>
>>File this under Stuff I Should Know But Don't:
>>
>>Has there ever been a competent and not-hopelessly-biased study,
>>based on what the U.S. and U.S.S.R. had by way of warheads and
>>delivery systems at the time, of what the worst-case scenario
>>was for damage to (a) the human race and (b) the biosphere in
>>general, had the Crisis gone maximally critical? Was there a
>>real possibility of extinction?
>
> I've read studies since that concluded that they couldn't have
> wiped out all life, not even all human life, but civilization
> would've taken something of a hit.
>
> Looking back on it all, I'm of the opinion that the time World
> War III was not only averted, but taken off the list of
> possibilities by both major and several powers, was not the
> Cuban missile crisis but the Hungarian revolutio of, was it
> 1957? It's the kind of situation that had started both WWI and
> WWII, but the US *didn't* intervene, because the idea of a
> full-scale nuclear war had both sides sufficiently scared.
>>
>>(I'm kind of glad that I wasn't quite five years old yet in
>>October 1962 and had no idea of what was going on.)
>
> I was just about to turn twenty-one. We were all pretty scared,
> and Bertrand Russell was saying "By the end of the week we shall
> all be dead." However, by the end of the week Kennedy and
> Khrushkhov went eyeball to eyeball and Khrushkhov blinked first.
>
Both sides had reason to believe the other side was batshit crazy
enough to push the button. Neither side was, as it turns out.
Kennedy was, perhaps, closer to that crazy, but from accounts
published since, neither side really willing.
Interesting note: in wargames that involve both civilian and
military leadership, in which a political crisis is simulated that
could conceivably lead to nuclear war, the military commanders
_never_ fire their nukes, even in response to the other side doing
so. And the civilian commanders _always_ do so, even with other
clear paths to resolve the crisis being available.
--
Terry Austin
"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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