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To: Crocodile who wrote (6316)	1/27/2004 11:32:23 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

My mother and father were on the West Coast, in San Diego. Similar sorts of experience. I didn't see it obviously and have no means to evaluate it objectively. Even so, while the impact was more tangible on a daily basis for people in WWII, MAD assured that no one on the planet would survive unscathed. The sheer scale of all-out nuclear war is like you and everyone you know being collectively dangled over a pit of hungry tigers by the thinnest of ropes and watching threads pop, one by one. At any given moment you only have small reminders of your predicament: the situation of your demise is very abstract - you have no wounds and you aren't feeling any pain. You don't know anyone who died. Its all abstract and surreal. Most kids didn't talk about it much, but the smarter ones thought about it. While kids played army during WWII and pretended to kill Japanese and Germans in their back yards, I don't remember anyone playing global thermonuclear war.