How close we came to not having an Alpha Centauri2 owner with us...

[Geo]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/439f47c0c1cba2233e85d07183a5cea5.htm

[Buster's Uncle]

Eh, it almost got Mylochka - and she was almost 100 miles away in 1961.  I wasn't born for another three years.

[Geo]

Eh, it almost got Mylochka - and she was almost 100 miles away in 1961.  I wasn't born for another three years.

Chances are you wouldn't even got born due to the circumstances (radiation, mutation, resettlement,..).

[Buster's Uncle]

The folks were going to college in Burlington in 1961 - it would have taken terrible luck for them to have gotten caught in fallout significantly.  Goldsboro is a wide spot in the road, not a major city, so not the biggest refugee problem imaginable.

Mom would have been glad to have seen the trailer they lived in at the time destroyed, mind you...

[Rusty Edge]

Sometimes history hangs by a thread.
I can only imagine that in the event of 1)  a hot detonation, and 2) presuming somebody fell on their sword and accepted responsibility, thus preventing nuclear WWIII ....

That there would have been a popular uprising against nuclear weapons, even before Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

But without the nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction that kept the world powers from fighting each other for many decades...  do you think we might have had a conventional WWIII during one of the many confrontations- Berlin/Eastern Europe/Viet Nam?

[gwillybj]

  Man, that would  have sucked!