Sarah Palin was right: Is Russia Set to Spark WW3?

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Just about everyone of a certain age can remember the fear of nuclear war I suppose.  I remember the fallout shelters at just about every public building,  but it was the little metal and wood desks that really saved the world.
Don't forget Sarah,  it's morning in America and there's a bear shitting in the woods.   

[Sargon The Grape]

Eh, at least World War 3 would postpone the inevitable machine uprising.

[SGOS]

Eh, at least World War 3 would postpone the inevitable machine uprising.

I for one, would welcome our robot overlords.

[Sargon The Grape]

I for one, would welcome our robot overlords.

Only if I get to pour my brain into a computer first. Hey, if you can't beat 'em...

[PopeyesPappy]

Try going to battle stations missile twice a week, simulating nuking a few million civilians in a foreign country you'll never visit. Fun shit, if you want to get some perspective, try that for a bit.

We used to practice nuking Heidelberg when I was in Pforzheim. About 30 miles away as the fallout drifts...

[stromboli]

We used to practice nuking Heidelberg when I was in Pforzheim. About 30 miles away as the fallout drifts...

yeah, fun shit. The Missile compensation panel on the BCP (ballast control panel) has 16 missile tubes displayed. They always wrote "to Russia, with love" on them at the start of every patrol. That's what I think of when I hear the term, not James Bond.

[PopeyesPappy]

The German crew that came in for our NATO tactical evaluations weren't very fond of our mission when we drew the nuke Heidelberg mission.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

There was a time when I thought that it was a great idea to have a shelter in case of nuclear war so I would have a chance to survive it, but now if somehow if nuclear war were to start and by some freak of broadcast journalism we were informed that the missiles were on the way my first response would be to grab a lawn chair, a bottle of Scotch and sit and wait for the fireworks.  Knowing my rotten luck the blast would be to far away to immediately kill me so I'd die a slow agonizing death of radioactive poisoning.

[stromboli]

I live within ten miles of an air base in a single wide mobile home, so my odds of survival aren't great. I'm 66. I'm not running anywhere. They want to nuke me, have at it.

[PopeyesPappy]

Coincidentally this article showed up in my Facebook feed today.

http://www.truthandaction.org/putin-world-war-iii-inevitable/

[stromboli]

The German crew that came in for our NATO tactical evaluations weren't very fond of our mission when we drew the nuke Heidelberg mission.

Lol. down in the Fire Control Compartment- below Navigation, because they got their input from Nav to locate the ship to launch the missiles- if you talked nice to the boys down there they could show you a set of coordinates where each missile was pointed. One guy sat down and located them on a map. He quit after Minsk. The city now is in Belarus. Back then part of the Soviet Union. Has a population of a million.

[Baruch]

I spent 4 years aboard a FBM missile submarine, the "sharp end of the spear" exactly one (1) radio message away from nuclear war. We were at battle stations on my first patrol for 4 days when the Chinese (not the North Koreans, as stated) captured the Pueblo. Nothing like sitting there and watching the Radioman chief shuttling messages to the captain on the Con.

Try going to battle stations missile twice a week, simulating nuking a few million civilians in a foreign country you'll never visit. Fun shit, if you want to get some perspective, try that for a bit.

How did you like K-19? ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EtdzCSkEnE

Much more realistic than Hunt For Red October.

[PopeyesPappy]

I live within ten miles of an air base in a single wide mobile home, so my odds of survival aren't great. I'm 66. I'm not running anywhere. They want to nuke me, have at it.

I know the feeling.



I wouldn't mind having an underground shelter, but that's more about tornadoes than nuclear bombs.

[stromboli]

How did you like K-19? ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EtdzCSkEnE

Much more realistic than Hunt For Red October.

K-19 Widowmaker was a Russian sub. They didn't build them with the care we did. We had very, very few nuclear related incident and no outright accidents. They don't tell you that 2 or possibly 3 Soviet subs didn't make it home. One of ours came home a foot shorter after it crushed its front superstructure on an underwater mountain. We got rammed by a whale once. Shit happened. 

If you want realism, watch Das Boot. That captures some of the paranoia and claustrophobia of living in a ship for weeks at a time.

[stromboli]

I know the feeling.



I wouldn't mind having an underground shelter, but that's more about tornadoes than nuclear bombs.

Lol Pappy. At least you got some high rent digs.