Thread: About Cold War and more

Okay, so tomorrow is the deadline for the assignment... this thread of course can go on and on, but any last input for the assignment today would be great. Thanks.


BappaBa, thank you so much for posting those graphics. While I can't read them, I believe I get the basic understanding of them. Do you by any chance have a date from when they are from?



maxmixi, where did you grow up that it effect you so much? I know living so close to Washington, D.C. everything was different for me as well. When I was young I was sitting in a tree and there was this BOOM and the tree shook. I thought a bomb went off in DC. It turned out that a house exploded in the next "town" over yet we felt it. There was nothing left of the house and thankfully no one was in the house at the time. I believe it was a gas build up. And when we had the earthquake here last year, as we NEVER have them here, the very first thought the girls and I had, was a bomb.

It is interesting that when I was in elementary school they used to have the emergency sirens go off I think once a month to test them. They had it in the school yard. Now they don't do that any more. Does anyone else remember those or am I the only person old enough?

My dad is old enough that when I asked him about all of this, he remembers the duck and cover under his desk from WW2, having to sit in lines on each side of the hallway, and his dad was actually an air raid warden.

Originally Posted by rockzmom

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It is interesting that when I was in elementary school they used to have the emergency sirens go off I think once a month to test them. They had it in the school yard. Now they don't do that any more. Does anyone else remember those or am I the only person old enough?

It was the same in USSR except the sirens have been going off for the whole city not just school

Originally Posted by rockzmom

BappaBa, thank you so much for posting those graphics. While I can't read them, I believe I get the basic understanding of them. Do you by any chance have a date from when they are from?

I believe they are from early 80's, because of the Space Shuttle.

Originally Posted by BappaBa

I believe they are from early 80's, because of the Space Shuttle.

Thanks. I forwarded the second one to her teacher and I just got a text from my daughter that he is showing it to them in class right now!! You see how much you impact the lives of American school children??!!

About the Space Shuttle, I was talking with my dad about that one. Is the picture suggesting that you could launch a weapon from the Space Shuttle? If so, that is something that neither of us thought about before.

Originally Posted by rockzmom

About the Space Shuttle, I was talking with my dad about that one. Is the picture suggesting that you could launch a weapon from the Space Shuttle? If so, that is something that neither of us thought about before.

The space shuttles were one of the key components of the SDI. It was estimated that the cost to deploy the nuclear weapon onto space and maintaining it there would be reduced by the space shuttles.

Originally Posted by Crocodile

The space shuttles were one of the key components of the SDI. It was estimated that the cost to deploy the nuclear weapon onto space and maintaining it there would be reduced by the space shuttles.

Say what? That little tidbit of information certain went by me. But then again, most of politics did when I was growing up. Remember, Star Wars was a movie to me... one I actually saw in a movie theater, back in 1977.

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Thanks. I forwarded the second one to her teacher and I just got a text from my daughter that he is showing it to them in class right now!! You see how much you impact the lives of American school children??!!

Let us know how it went