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From: arlan@inuxm.UUCP (A Andrews)
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Subject: Re: 85/55 surprises
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 14:11:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 14:11:41 1985
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> 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?

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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.