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Anyone not old enough to remember what it was like to live through the Cuban Missile Crisis, when practicing our "Duck and Cover" drills in school was "normal" and fear cut through every day's routines and ate at our psyches constantly because we KNEW nuclear annihilation of all life on the planet was not an unrealistic danger, must surely have a hard time recognizing just how insane a nuclear attack on Iran would be. You never even hear these days terms like "fallout" and MAD (for Mutually Assured Destruction -- which was a publicly acknowledged POLICY of our government back then!) and "radiation poisoning." You probably find it difficult to imagine what it was like to shudder, at least inwardly, at the very sound a Geiger counter makes, even if it were in harmless situations....
I'm relieved and happy to see a lot of younger folks here on DU, at least, are smart enough to see the threat such an action would represent -- not only to Iranians and others in the region, but to Americans as well when the world turned on us so massively it would make their present resentment of us seem like a lovefest.
We oldtimers can recall only too well how worried we were every single day back in the Sixties, and how many nightmares we had about nuclear war.
I frankly wonder if, after these six decades since a nuclear bomb was actually used, the decision to use even a "small" one again now might not plunge the entire world into war with nuclear strikes by every nation that has that capacity. It's not like "disarmament" by nations in the "Nuclear Club" ever truly came close to removing the threat or potential of nuclear war.
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