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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I can remember living in the 80s, dead sure that a nuclear holocaust was just around the corner. I used to have dreams about where I could feel my flesh melting off.
It was just a fact of life in the time of Reagan and the evil empire.
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I feel like with the rise of North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons, this is where we'll end up again--feeling like a nuke is inevitable. My mom and dad have both talked about growing up during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and my grandparents lived down the street from a public bomb shelter built during that era (one of the coolest things ever, by the way) in a park. My mom, growing up in the PacNW, was taught to duck and cover. Where my dad grew up in Miami, they didn't bother. They figured if the bomb was going to drop, they would be vaporized anyways. I can't even imagine that feeling.
After September 11th and the rash of terrorist actions against the United States, plus school shootings and large-scale disasters, I often wonder what the morning's news will hold when I click on my link to the NYTimes. I feel like sometimes time is something that runs on between events like Sept. 11th, Katrina, and Virginia Tech, and that the true markers of the global calendar are events of devastation and death. That is the downside of instant news on a global scale.
My parents currently live near a base for Trident submarines. I'm fairly sure that if the PacNW ever does get attacked by a nuke...they're gone.