On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:34:44 -0600, Big John wrote:

Long time ago in a War far away.

A was deeply impressed while visiting the Titan II missile museum near
Tucson, AZ (when you are at the Pima Air and Space museum you might buy a
pass for the museum, the tour at Davis Monthan AFB and the Titan II). They
have an intercontinental missile with control center etc. there which is
open to the public. After seeing that I realized what cold war really
meant.
From the Titan II missiles they had about 40 or so in service and it only
needed 3 of them well placed to destroy the whole USA (just to have some
relations). And they had about 40 only of this prodution line (and
intercontinental long range is more a stratetic weapon than a first strike
weapon).

Well, the guide was a more than 70 year old man being very proud about the
nukes and not even considered with a blink of his eyes any alternatives or
was not really glad about disarmament.

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