How were we ever a part of this insanity? One week of every month I spent sitting SAC nuclear alert back in the 80s, almost a year of my life in total, and it never really occurred to me when I was doing it how utterly improbable it would have been for us to survive had we ever had to fly an actual nuclear strike mission against the USSR! Even the silliness of the eyepatches, worn because a nuke detonation would burn your retinas if you happened be looking in the direction of the blast. But with the patch, you’d still have one good eye if your uncovered eye got fried! And then the notion that all of our nukes launched from the CONUS and our submarines would be hitting their targets at their scheduled times! Absolute insanity! And, now, more than 30 years after the Cold War ended, the world’s the closest it’s been to nuclear war since the 1960s? Maybe even closer. Absolute insanity!
Back in the day, the bombers carried the B41 drop bomb. They usually has a few B-52s in the air with AGM-28 Hound Dogs, attached to a weapons pylon under each wing, these would target air defense bases ahead of the incoming B41s.
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How were we ever a part of this insanity? One week of every month I spent sitting SAC nuclear alert back in the 80s, almost a year of my life in total, and it never really occurred to me when I was doing it how utterly improbable it would have been for us to survive had we ever had to fly an actual nuclear strike mission against the USSR! Even the silliness of the eyepatches, worn because a nuke detonation would burn your retinas if you happened be looking in the direction of the blast. But with the patch, you’d still have one good eye if your uncovered eye got fried! And then the notion that all of our nukes launched from the CONUS and our submarines would be hitting their targets at their scheduled times! Absolute insanity! And, now, more than 30 years after the Cold War ended, the world’s the closest it’s been to nuclear war since the 1960s? Maybe even closer. Absolute insanity!
Back in the day, the bombers carried the B41 drop bomb. They usually has a few B-52s in the air with AGM-28 Hound Dogs, attached to a weapons pylon under each wing, these would target air defense bases ahead of the incoming B41s.
Interesting! Thank you!
Please add English subtitles with a black font for clarity against light coloured backgrounds!
Due to the narrator's extremely heavy foreign accent, a great many of his words are unintelligible to native English speakers!
'No shade 😮 it's the fact Jack!
Thanks! 🙏 ☺️ 😊 🙏
Well there is first for everything ;) - 469 000 views on this channel and the first comment saying "extremely heavy foreign accent" any second opinions out there? and whatever thanks for watching!
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Hi Maddy