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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Duck and Cover come from the cold war we were in, I lived thru that and served during that, during the Reagan administration, it went bye bye.
The world was on the brink of going "poof!"
Maybe you should read a little about Cuba?
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I know what "duck and cover" is...I too lived thru those years...and no...the world was not anymore in danger of going "poof" than it is now. During the "Cuban Missile Crisis" the world was not in danger of going "poof"...MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) existed and niether the U.S. or the Soviets were dumb enough to launch nukes at one another. In my opinion the world is actually a more dangerous place now than it was during the "Cold War". None of this has anything to do with the points that I was making. BTW...President Reagan did not end the "Cold War"...it was the accumulated policy of every administration...since and including President Truman's administration against the Soviet's that brought an end to the "Cold War"...combined with the internal collaspe of the Soviet system.