What a nuclear exchange with the USSR could have looked like?

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volprof said:
To this day, whenever that movie comes on TV, the world stops spinning for a couple hours, at least at my house.

I remember acting out scenes from it as a kid, back in the fields and woods behind my family's farm. In those days, I was only armed with a Ruger .22, but I graduated in due time.
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You'd best get that Blu-Ray! Otherwise, you're just a fake fan
 
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Grand Vol said:
You'd best get that Blu-Ray! Otherwise, you're just a fake fan
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I've thought about it, but one thing that has always kept me back is the effect of it "coming on," in a sense. If you have the video, you can play it at anytime; it tends to then lose its special quality. If you wait till it comes on TV, then you've really got something.

You're then like Al Bundy on that one episode of "Married With Children," as he's waiting throughout the day for "Hondo" to come on. Epic.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Preparing for a nuclear attack is one thing. But during the Cold War, there was Mutually Assured Destruction.

These guys in charge are more than willing to "initiate" a nuclear war. Big difference. One is a defensive posture and preparation. These madmen are more than willing to push the button for the sake of what? Not freedom or any of that nonsense. They are willing to blow up the world for the sake of cleaning up the economic mess that this world is about to plunge into.
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The looming economic mess you talk about due to a change in social mood which typically ends in war-either internal or external. I'm more of the mind that this one will be an internal war. In another thread we talked about secession and how the Federal Government might respond. Would the sociopaths in government ever turn nuclear weapons on their own citizenry? Or at least try. I don't believe most in the chain of command would go along with it.
 
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Sandvol said:
The looming economic mess you talk about due to a change in social mood which typically ends in war-either internal or external. I'm more of the mind that this one will be an internal war. In another thread we talked about secession and how the Federal Government might respond. Would the sociopaths in government ever turn nuclear weapons on their own citizenry? Or at least try. I don't believe most in the chain of command would go along with it.
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I wouldn't go that far, but I am starting to believe that they will try to use them externally.
 
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Sandvol said:
Would the sociopaths in government ever turn nuclear weapons on their own citizenry? Or at least try. I don't believe most in the chain of command would go along with it.
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Let me back up... if Obama is allowing the borders to be opened up to illegals, terrorists and Ebola plagues, the powers that be, wouldn't need to drop nukes on us... they can just let those crossing the border destroy us.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Let me back up... if Obama is allowing the borders to be opened up to illegals, terrorists and Ebola plagues, the powers that be, wouldn't need to drop nukes on us... they can just let those crossing the border destroy us.
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No outside power can invade and take over/destroy us. It will come from within, almost as you described.
 
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hog88 said:
No outside power can invade and take over/destroy us. It will come from within, almost as you described.
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Agreed.

It will come from the open borders. Then the democrats will blame the republicans, because they wouldn't give him the 3 billion to address it.
 
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hog88 said:
No outside power can invade and take over/destroy us. It will come from within, almost as you described.
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It's already happening. Take one look at the border and watch the invasion happen before your eyes.
 
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Grand Vol said:
News flash, but the federal government has been planning to survive a nuclear exchange for about six decades now...I don't know if you heard, but we landed men on the moon and returned them safely to Earth as well.
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Preparing for a nuclear attack is one thing. But during the Cold War, there was Mutually Assured Destruction.

These guys in charge are more than willing to "initiate" a nuclear war. Big difference. One is a defensive posture and preparation. These madmen are more than willing to push the button for the sake of what? Not freedom or any of that nonsense. They are willing to blow up the world for the sake of cleaning up the economic mess that this world is about to plunge into.
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Paul Craig Roberts this afternoon pretty much stated the exact same thing I stated last night. Starting at the 14:30 mark. We will essentially be trying to win a first strike nuclear war with Russia and China. Crazy...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lPeeGT8uVI[/youtube]
 
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hog88 said:
No outside power can invade and take over/destroy us. It will come from within, almost as you described.
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They could very well be trying to kill us right now...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t67Goh__MI[/youtube]
 
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