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To: The Philosopher who wrote (4433)2/15/2003 12:35:39 AM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
My dad was an aerospace guy. We always lived within 5 miles of Ground Zero. I figured we were vapor phase if there was a nuclear exchange. Hughes. Boeing. Lockheed. Rockwell. Grumman. McDonnell-Douglas. You name it - he worked there.

I REALLY believed all that about how safe we'd be if only we got under our desks. Not! Maybe I wasn't only the kid who knew all the missiles, their designation, their payloads, and blast radii, but a lot of people I knew didn't talk about it. They had books in my library that told you just about everything you'd want to know about military weapons systems - tactical field nukes and interceptors.

My favorite was the Bomarc missle. Twin ramjet nuclear-tipped interceptor missile.
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I guess it was a morbid fascination of mine that just amazes me now. It is so mixed up with my love of the mission to the moon.

Maybe that's what age and having kids of your own does for you. It was surreal and awe inspiring when a kid. That whole cold war period kind of made me fatalistic, I suppose. But still, I was hopeful as man walked on the moon. After all, nothing really, really bad had happened. I'd known about Missile Crisis and remember my Mom and Dad having a very serious talk. It's different when you think about your own house being akin to that one in the declassified military footage we used to watch. That isn't something any kid should have to live with.
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