Originally Posted by
ShotOne
1955 " a period of relative peace..." Seriously? Relative to what? We faced the might of the all-conquering Red Army, massively outnumbering us conventionally, nuclear armed to boot. Ditto for the two minutes to midnight nonsense. How, by any rational yardstick can we be reckoned in as much danger as during the Cuban crisis??
Great point. Why don't people realize that the closest the world came to all-out nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis.