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Originally posted by blue58
Does anyone even worry about this anymore? The end of the cold war is not exactly a good thing. I think the generation before ours (speaking for some of us) was terrified of it as a real possibility.
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I remember watching "The Day After", and being scared shitless at the possibility. I even went on a local (Baltimore) TV talk show (that was co-hosted by none other than Oprah, so you know this is old!), to debate the issue of nuclear weapons.
The possibility still scares me. I even had a small panic attack about it for a few days after 9/11...I was expecting to see the flash in the sky, and then the big mushroom cloud...anytime I heard a heavy rumbling at night, I was ready to jump out of my skin (turns out, it was only the patrol planes flying nearby).
I have no idea why I reacted like that, but it subsided after a couple of days (although when regular planes started flying again, I had to look up).