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2018-01-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Countdown to disaster: Doomsday Clock now 2 minutes to midnight

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Posted by Fred 2018-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Are these guys Iron Maiden fans?

Posted by Raj 2018-01-26 00:15|| 2018-01-26 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Has there ever been a time when it wasn't a few minutes to midnight? Maybe they need to put some new batteries in that thing.

Posted by SteveS 2018-01-26 01:04|| 2018-01-26 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 I remember the "Daylight Savings' 'Fall Forward' Crisis of '87" like it was yesterday

Posted by Frank G 2018-01-26 07:08|| 2018-01-26 07:08|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember when SAC had aircraft on airborne rotation. These 'kids' weren't even kids when we were kids, but enough of us have lived through far far more dangerous times.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-01-26 07:59|| 2018-01-26 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I remember 1978-ish, back when they had three premiers in a row because they kept dying of old age, and becoming convinced that a Nuclear Sunrise wasn't likely.
It was a color photo if the Soviet Politburo with every member was an old, white haired guy and even the flunkies in the aisles had gray hair! "A room full of paranoid bureaucrat survivors are just not going to have the stones to 'Push The Button!' " or so I thought at the time....

Posted by magpie 2018-01-26 08:30|| 2018-01-26 08:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah yes, P2k, the "good" ol'e days.

I remember watching the Cuban Missile crisis unfold on TV as I was starting high school.

Fun times were abundant. /sarc

Posted by AlanC 2018-01-26 09:10|| 2018-01-26 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Doomsday Clock Promoters Donated Thousands to Democrats

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-01-26 09:49|| 2018-01-26 09:49|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-26 12:22|| 2018-01-26 12:22|| Front Page Top

#9 In October 1962 my dad's entire company in Detroit shut down for a week to allow everyone there to move selves & family "up north" & away from "Ground Zero", as we once thought of Detroit. I warned my little brother not to look up at any bright flashes in the sky.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-01-26 13:09|| 2018-01-26 13:09|| Front Page Top

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