Comments on: 7 Close Calls in the Nuclear Age

By: steve

steve — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:22:18 +0000

I was there during the 1979 Incident. This is a great case PROVING the media DOES NOT report the facts as they occurred. BEWARE OF HISTORY REVISION… The event lasted FAR longer than 6 minutes… more like 6 hours. The whole base was loaded with planes of every type and I saw C-141′s next to the tower being loaded with Fully armed and outfitted paratroopers… we WERE in the USAF”s opinion at that moment IN A WAR. I remember that due to so many aircraft operating near the tower that it was difficult to breathe due to the JP-4 fumes. We had out our secret documents out and this was NO EXERCISE. There was NEVER any publication in the newspapers or even a mention on TV of what happened that day. Years later I learned of what allegedly happened when I saw it on the History Channel. We will likely NEVER know what really happened, but I KNOW it was more than a 6 minute bump in the road. For those few hours I know we were at WAR.

By: Patrick Swazey

Patrick Swazey — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:03:24 +0000

What about that time when the Cubans, Russian, and Nicaraguan armies invaded through mexico splitting america in half in the ’88. And a band of highschool kids held up in the mountains of colorado stopping the western invasion.

By: christineeee

christineeee — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:56:09 +0000

cuban missile crisis?

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:33:27 +0000

Many of the people who make common pronunciation mistakes, including the presidents listed above, were educated in during periods when public schools were teaching rote memorization rather than phonics. In other words, they learned how to recognize words the way you recognize a shape or a color, but they cannot actually read since they cannot identify words they have never seen before. They pronounce words they way they were told to pronounce them. Therefore, the problem lies with previous generations of educators and has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence.

By: bob

bob — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:36:35 +0000

I heard the nucular pronunciation started with Teller. Since he briefed a lot of presidents on these issues, it seems reasonable.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:07:00 +0000

“Nuculear” is a common mistake many people make…it hasn’t anything to do with politics or particularly foul Presidents.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 04:39:12 +0000

all the more reason we should hurry up with colonizing the moon and Mars

By: Troy H.

Troy H. — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:23:43 +0000

We were extremely close to seeing nuclear weapons used in combat during the first gulf war.

When Saddam started preparing to launch his scuds at Israel. Israeli jets started streaking for Baghdad. If the scuds had turned out to have anything but conventional warheads, Baghdad would’ve been turned into rubble and glass.

By: hockeyzombie

hockeyzombie — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:02:48 +0000

@Lauren, that made my day : )

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:53:17 +0000

A note on 4 & 5 in the article:
The “nuclear missiles” those planes carried were Genie air-to-air missiles, not ground strike missiles. F102′s and F106′s were interceptors tasked to take out incoming formations of Soviet bombers. The Genie missile was designed to fly into the center of a massive wave of bombers and vaporise all of them.