06-25-2025, 07:45 PM
I lived through the Cuban missile crisis in the 1960's.
My father worked at the Aerojet plant near Sacramento, California...right next door to Mather AFB, which at that time, was a Strategic Air Command base..
In short, I lived in a very likely "ground Zero" for a Soviet H-bomb.
Fortunately, I was too young (kindergarten) to really experience the constant fear of immment annihilation. But I have not forgotten. And I have grown sanguine with time.
I have very little doubt that a nuclear exchange is in the cards, at some time. Humans tend only to learn from negative experiences, rather than from reason..
My best hope is that humanity learns to never again use nuclear weapons as a result of an exchange between, shall we say "second tier" nuclear opponents: Nuclear-armed nations that do not yet hold claim to "Super power status". Nations like Pakistan, India, Israel, and yes, Iran. (I leave North Korea as an outlier due to the fact that they are a threat to everyone, and thus not a direct threat to another Nuclear-armed neighbor)
Such an exchange could remain "regional" (though no less cataclysmic) with restraint being exercised by nuclear super powers.
A harsh lesson, but not an Apocalypse.
My father worked at the Aerojet plant near Sacramento, California...right next door to Mather AFB, which at that time, was a Strategic Air Command base..
In short, I lived in a very likely "ground Zero" for a Soviet H-bomb.
Fortunately, I was too young (kindergarten) to really experience the constant fear of immment annihilation. But I have not forgotten. And I have grown sanguine with time.
I have very little doubt that a nuclear exchange is in the cards, at some time. Humans tend only to learn from negative experiences, rather than from reason..
My best hope is that humanity learns to never again use nuclear weapons as a result of an exchange between, shall we say "second tier" nuclear opponents: Nuclear-armed nations that do not yet hold claim to "Super power status". Nations like Pakistan, India, Israel, and yes, Iran. (I leave North Korea as an outlier due to the fact that they are a threat to everyone, and thus not a direct threat to another Nuclear-armed neighbor)
Such an exchange could remain "regional" (though no less cataclysmic) with restraint being exercised by nuclear super powers.
A harsh lesson, but not an Apocalypse.
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