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Re: Can anyone remember...?

From William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: Can anyone remember...?
Date 2015-10-03 14:35 -0400
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Don Bruder wrote:
> In article <mup4ku$ng9$1@dont-email.me>,
>  William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>> In article <mungof$da1$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> William Vetter  <mdhangton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>>> In article <XnsA527A3CE39C94taustingmail@69.16.179.43>,
>>>>> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Interesting.  Considering the one time when nukes might have been
>>>>> used after 1945.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It was the Korean War; it wasn't getting anywhere; General
>>>>> MacArthur wanted to nuke Beijing.  Truman forbade it.  MacArthur
>>>>> told everyone what a stupid President Truman was, he didn't
>>>>> understand military matters.  Truman recalled him.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was in fourth grade, and the teacher told us all to remember
>>>>> when "General MacArthur came home.  You can say, I was in fourth
>>>>> grade."
>>>>> 
>>>>> They made it as easy on him as possible, under the circumstances,
>>>>> and he made a speech to Congress: "They say old soldiers never
>>>>> die, they just fade away; I am an old soldier, and now I shall
>>>>> fade away."
>>>>> 
>>>>> But, in that one instance when nukes *might* have been used, it
>>>>> was the military man who wanted to use them, and the lifelong
>>>>> civilian who wouldn't let him.
>>>> 
>>>> No, there was talk about the US using tacnukes on behalf of the French 
>>>> at the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
>>> 
>>> There may have been talk.  Nobody used them.
>>> 
>>> In similar fashion, poison gas was used in WWI and prepared
>>> against during WWII ... but nobody ever actually used it.  They
>>> had learned that gas had an unpleasant habit of following a
>>> change in the wind and poisoning your own troops, not the
>>> enemy's.
>> 
>> Every destroyer has one ASROC in its launcher, ready to fire.  That's 
>> been true for more than fifty years.
>
> Anti-submarine rocket? 

Yes.

I knew a guy who was on a crew.  It was their joke that which tube it 
was in was supposed to be a secret, and it was said to be rotated 
frequently, but the nuclear technician who came on board would always 
go over the same tube with his geiger counter.

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