The Cold War

haha do u guys remember this shit at all

people used to talk abt ww3 all the time like it was a real thing that was totes gonna happen

people used to talk abt ww3 all the time like it was a real thing that was totes gonna happen

To be fair though, the rhetoric in the aftermath of the KAL 007 shootdown was strong enough that it feel like the missiles would have started flying if anyone blinked. Especially when the US got the go ahead to deploy the Pershing IIs in West Germany. My dad told me that he felt like it was the Cuban Missile Crisis all over again.

even before KAL 007 Reagan's anti-soveit rhetoric & military build-up were scaring lots of people. it really seemed like he could start a nuclear war. there were two huge heating/AC units outside my apt window (for the restaurant downstairs) and when they rumbled loud abt 4AM I would wake up and think "the russian planes are coming..." seriously.

tbf there were points where the world was dangerously close to utter nuclear annihilation, its just kind of funny at this point how it was such a part of the popular imagination and now no one thinks abt it anymore, ww3 histeria was super popular even from the small less intense end piece of the cold war i remember

its kind of absurd that the u.s. policies of the era are now generally considered a success because the world was not destroyed and the ussr collapsed - and all we had to deal with was 40 years of terror, proxy wars, and ridiculous military build up!

The Day After movie! that shit scared me when i was a kid

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Thedayafter.jpg

OH SHIT WE GONNA DIE

oh man that movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA

the only cold war the kids might remember is Janelle Monae's.

According to Edmund Morris, Reagan's response to The Day After was to write in his journal, for the first and only time in his public life, "profoundly depressed."

there was a whole, quite interesting, article about reagan's response to it in 'empire' magazine the other month

Link?

paper only, by someone called simon braund

thought of this cause a younger friend teaching english in korea was all via gchat last nite omg we did a drill and hid in the school bomb shelter - i was like pfft we used to do that IN AMERICA

http://mauriciobaccarin.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/domino_theory1.png

loll

so much for that theory i guess

the only cold war the kids might remember is Janelle Monae's.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

not gonna lie when i saw thread in site new answers my first thought was 'good song but did it really needs its own thread'

Testament >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Day After

but yeah I remember late 70s/early 80s nuclear annihilation Cold War hysteria really well. Enough that when all the OMG WE GONNA DIE bloviating/hystrionics began afte r9/11 I was just like *ppffffft* "we had thousands of nukes pointed at this country for decades - a bunch of luddite loonies with boxcutters is nothing in comparison".

Did America win?

wait, you're saying it's over?

(I still feel that way tbh - the threat Al Qaeda poses to the US by comparison is miniscule and pathetic and we should be responding accordingly instead of having extra-judicial killings and invading random countries)

xp

when two tribes go to war, a point is all that you can score

yah shakey otm people searching for a new cold war trying to find that juice, pitiful

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/BonzoGoesToWashington.jpg

"Day After" was on TV a couple of years back, Mr Veg decided it to watch it for lols. It was pretty funny, corny disaster movie etc...then the attack scene happened and I had to leave the room, it freaked me out too bad. Mr Veg was all, "but you were just a kid, right?" and I was like, yeah a kid who watched TV!
Sting singing songs about the Russians, and little kids writing crayon letters to Reagan about not pushing the button, and every news story was about Star Wars or Russia or some shit, and reading all those post-apocalyptic 'kids' books like Z for Zachariah and Children of The Dust...it sticks in a kid's head!

yah im sayin it was everywhere, most currently unacknowledged cultural phenomenon of recent history

amazing and gross how much it seems like so many of our elites loved that shit and miss it. bolton, mccain, all of them. they can't think of anything the country ought to do than more of that.

having an enemy makes life easy

true, even garfield has nermal

THAT LIL FUCKIN PUFF BALL

was pretty tense that one time doctor manhattan left for mars...

srsly tho, nuclear weapons are still one of the planet's main existential threats and the dickweed republicans blocking any replacement for the start treaty isn't helping.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/BonzoGoesToWashington.jpg

knew his telly career was a front for something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiW7NbkhbJ0

nuclear winter gonna FREEZE YOUR BRAIN

did the cold war ever really end? or did it just let up a bit during the 90s, then resume as before?