Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site inuxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!packard!ihnp1!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxm!arlan From: arlan@inuxm.UUCP (A Andrews) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: 85/55 surprises Message-ID: <272@inuxm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 14:11:41 EDT Article-I.D.: inuxm.272 Posted: Wed Aug 7 14:11:41 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 04:25:30 EDT References: <3093@topaz.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis Lines: 18 > From: Boebert@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA > > Somebody asked what about 1985 would surprise somebody from 1955, and > somebody else responded that it would be that the cold war was still on. > Well, I just arrived from 1955 (I walked) and the big surprise is that > it is still cold. I was in the Ground Observor Corps then (we filled > the gaps in the Air Defense Command radar net, which was more gaps than > net) and the question wasn't whether there was going to be a nuclear > war, it was when. I for one was utterly astonished to see 1984 roll by. > Incidentally, there was a now-forgotton Phillip Wylie novel about a > mid-1950's nuclear exchange between the US and the USSR -- anybody > remember the name? *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** The story was TOMORROW! by Philip Wylie, and I for one weish that it had happened that way; at least, if only kiloton bombs had been used, most of us would have survived, and thre would be no Soviets/Jihadists/other crazies to be threatening us today.