Comments by "Peter S" (@Peter_S_) on "The Jimmy Dore Show" channel.

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  47. Unkown Stranger the level of tension changed, but the Cold War is the same old Cold War. When the Russian Federation was formed the clock was reset to 17 minutes and as the Cold War was ramped right back to where it was with the USSR, the clock approached midnight just like old times. The Cuban Missile Crisis was indeed a flash point and I know of three incidents that brought the world to within a hair of WWIII during that crisis however I also know of more than three incidents which happened after that almost brought us to WWIII and I know someone who was present at one of the events which almost resulted in the US nuking China in the 1970s from bases in Taiwan. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a fast crisis and it didn't even make a blip on the Doomsday Clock. What sets the clock is the current sustained geopolitical reality. According to that reality, 1984 was the height of the Cold War. I remember it really well. Reagan tripled the national debt with his Star Wars program where he wanted to encircle the planet with orbiting "enhanced radiation profile" nuclear weapons which pumped x-ray lasers. It was exceptionally tense. The Bulletin is made up of retired nuclear weapons designers. You can assume they know more that you do or ever will. The US was fielding neutron bombs starting in 1974 and the goal was to eventually station them in places like West Germany. Israel is said to have developed neutron bombs by 1984, China had operational neutron bombs by 1988, and Russia started fielding neutron bombs on air defence missiles in 1995. Neutron bombs raised the stakes considerably and didn't exist during the Cuban crisis. BTW: Your vote story is pure fiction but SAC General Curtis LeMay argued for preemptive nuclear strikes on multiple occasions. I knew two men who served directly under LeMay and one told me in no uncertain terms, "I would DIE for Curt.". LeMay was so fucking insane that he was the basis for both General Buck Turgidson and Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper in the movie Dr. Strangelove.
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