Shiat happens.

dustman81: Would you like to play a game?

DAMMIT!

Approves.

They forgot the infamous Reagan speech.

whoops

Electing a Republican in 2008 ought to be enough to do it.

Was over half that list composed of situations that occured under the famous neocon Kennedy?

No butterfly ballot?

No guy who went back in time and stepped on butterfly?

Geez, October 1962 was a lousy month.

Gee, seeing how close we came to nuclear annihilation makes me realize how many farkers almost didn't have a life.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha My jaws ache.

Aren't we glad the Russians loved their children too?

Game, yadda, yadda, would you...blah. I don't even care that I was beaten to that one.

Darchangel: Geez, October 1962 was a lousy month da bomb.

ftfy.

stiletto_the_wise: Electing a Republican in 2008 ought to be enough to do it.

.......


Um, what?

Well, Bush has a year and a half left to get it right.

eatin' fetus

Nuclear war of course! Clearly the rest of the world sees the Republican party as the National Socialist party of the 21st century! Because any reasonable, read thinking the same as a authoritarian-liberal, knows the Republican party is a grave threat to the human race.

Then again considering that the world did nothing about the National Socialists, I'd expect them to not do anything about the Republican Party now.

Its a wonder that humanity survived the 20^th century, to paraphrase Star Trek IV.

ptelg: eatin' fetus

Nuclear war of course! Clearly the rest of the world sees the Republican party as the National Socialist party of the 21st century! Because any reasonable, read thinking the same as a authoritarian-liberal, knows the Republican party is a grave threat to the human race.

Then again considering that the world did nothing about the National Socialists, I'd expect them to not do anything about the Republican Party now.

A farking lot of dead soldiers would like a word with you.

Um, hello?? USS Liberty? Ever heard of it? Three minutes from nuking Cairo?



/nice "research"

F-102A Interceptor with Nuclear missiles? The F-102 was strictly an
air-to-air interceptor, were these nuclear tipped air-to-air missiles? FAIL.

President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.
General "Buck" Turgidson: That's right, sir, you are the only person authorized to do so. And although I, uh, hate to judge before all the facts are in, it's beginning to look like, uh, General Ripper exceeded his authority.

BlackArt: Well, Bush has a year and a half left to get it right.

Electing B. Hussein Obama as president would probably start one too.
Seriously, thats why we want people with experience for the job. Not just some bozo who has alot of experience running for president. At least Hillary has an idea how to defend us without running the risk of blowing up the whole planet.
/B. Hussein Obama, not so much

ptelg:

Nuclear war of course! Clearly the rest of the world sees the Republican party as the National Socialist party of the 21st century! Because any reasonable, read thinking the same as a authoritarian-liberal, knows the Republican party is a grave threat to the human race.

Then again considering that the world did nothing about the National Socialists, I'd expect them to not do anything about the Republican Party now.

Nothing like using a non sequitur to criticize a non sequiter. Hell, at least the original comment had some degree of accuracy, no matter how he intended it. Assuming that each candidate has an equal shot at winning their respective nominations, a vote for the Republican nominee has a statistically significantly higher chance of leading to nuclear war than a vote for the Democratic nominee.

holy god where do you get those retarded great pictures? Do you do them yourself? Cause exaggerating Barak Obamas larger than average ears is extremely lame funny. Do you have any pictures with Hillary's fat ass photoshopped to look even bigger than it is (if that's possible) or one with her bawling her eyes out like a little girl? Those would be equally as humorous.

Let's high five sometime.
-Slamguy

lame

Sorry, I couldn't type too well cause i was having a good chuckle over that photoshopped picture.

Lol
-Slamguy

Saiga410: Was over half that list composed of situations that occured under the famous neocon Kennedy?

It was riskier in the early 1960's because there were no sanity checks. Once a Soviet launch was thought to have occurred, any missile base could launch its missiles on the base commander's orders without any confirming order from the President, or anyone else. Nor was there any contact between Washington and Moscow. Not until after the Cuban Missile Crisis did Kennedy and Khrushchev decide they needed a direct hotline between their offices so they could at least confirm the other guy had in fact started WWIII.

After those close calls in the 1960's, decision to launch was taken out of the base commanders' hands altogether and put directly into the President's and ONLY the President's hands. Which may or may not be a good thing, but notice it drastically reduced the number of potential "incidents" since then.

Yeah right, these hippies don't have a clue.

"F-102A Interceptor with Nuclear missiles? The F-102 was strictly an
air-to-air interceptor, were these nuclear tipped air-to-air missiles? FAIL."

I think not.

google sez

"The production F-102A had the Hughes MG-3 fire control system, later upgraded in service to the MG-10. It had a three-segment internal weapons bay under the fuselage for air-to-air missiles. Initial armament was three pairs of GAR-1 Falcon missiles, a mix of infrared and semi-active radar homing. The doors of the two forward bays each had tubes for 12 x 2.75 in FFAR rockets (for a total of 24). The F-102 was later upgraded to allow the carriage of an GAR-11 Nuclear Falcon missiles in the center bay. The larger size of this weapon required redesigned center bay doors with no rocket tubes. Plans were considered to fit the MB-1 Genie nuclear rocket to the design, but it was never adopted."

"The Genie was an unguided air-to-air missile with a nuclear warhead, used by interceptor aircraft of the United States Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force. A live Genie was detonated only once, on 19 July 1957. It was fired by an F-89J over Yucca Flats Nuclear Test Site at an altitude of 15,000 ft. A group of USAF officers volunteered to stand underneath the blast to prove that the weapon was safe for use over populated areas. Whether this affected the health of the officers is unknown.

The Genie was carried by F-89 Scorpion, F-101B Voodoo, and F-106 Delta Dart interceptors. It was apparently cleared for use by the F-104 Starfighter, but the Starfighter never carried it in operational service. Convair offered an upgrade of the F-102 Delta Dagger that would have been Genie-capable, but it was not adopted. The only non-U.S. user was Canada, whose CF-101 Voodoos carried Genies under a dual-key arrangement that required American cooperation to arm the warheads.

Genie was finally withdrawn from service in 1985."


The article does not mention a more recent event, while India and Pakistan were undergoing some very tense times over Kashmir, a bolide went off in the high reaches of the atmosphere, bright enough to trip an American DSP sat as a possible nuke blast. Had the bolide hit the atmosphere only an hour earlier, it would have exploded right above the disputed area, very likely looking to each side as if the other had set off an airburst. With less accurate sensors than ours, those two nations might very well have started slagging each other.

Any Pie Left:

I think not.

[snip]With less accurate sensors than ours, those two nations might very well have started slagging each other.

With no real great sense of loss on any other nations part, one might add.

/not that I'm callous or anything.
//well, yes, I am.

No mention of Stanislav Petrov? (pops)

"[...] a retired Russian Strategic Rocket Forces lieutenant colonel who, on September 26, 1983, deviated from standard Soviet doctrine by positively identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm. This decision, according to several sources, was a major factor in preventing an accidental retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had been malfunctioning."

In other words, you are ALIVE today because of this man.

It's even more poignant when you see that, though he made the right call and his superiors knew he made the right call, he was considered "politically unreliable" after that, which was the kiss of death for his career in the Soviet military.

FTA The original intruder was a bear.

We almost started a global nuclear war because of a bear.

/Beware of Bears!

Yeah, but the safeguards in place worked.

Fair_Poopsmith: dustman81: Would you like to play a game?

DAMMIT!

To be fair, you're both thinking of Geothermal Nuclear War.

What about the Russian guy who stopped Armageddon in the 80s and got shunned as a leper by the Russian military afterwards?

hillary4real

You're the idiot that Mike Judge was talking about. You're that guy. How does it feel?

kidsizedcoffin: Fair_Poopsmith: dustman81: Would you like to play a game?

DAMMIT!

To be fair, you're both thinking of Geothermal Nuclear War.

Nuclear War, using geysers & hot springs..?

Metaluna Mutant :



Do you have change for 10000 citizens?

Erbo: No mention of Stanislav Petrov? (pops)

"[...] a retired Russian Strategic Rocket Forces lieutenant colonel who, on September 26, 1983, deviated from standard Soviet doctrine by positively identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm. This decision, according to several sources, was a major factor in preventing an accidental retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had been malfunctioning."

You stole my thunder.
In other words, you are ALIVE today because of this man.

It's even more poignant when you see that, though he made the right call and his superiors knew he made the right call, he was considered "politically unreliable" after that, which was the kiss of death for his career in the Soviet military.

Slamguy: Cause exaggerating Barak Obamas larger than average ears is extremely lame funny.

About as funny as Bush made to look like a chimp, eh?

/I sense sweet payback coming in 2009-2013

by Alan F. Phillips, M.D., January, 1998

it's not NEW, it's fark.

noazark: kidsizedcoffin: Fair_Poopsmith: dustman81: Would you like to play a game?

DAMMIT!

To be fair, you're both thinking of Geothermal Nuclear War.

Nuclear War, using geysers & hot springs..?

heh. How about a nice game of chess?

This comes to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4

TheGreyPiper: Yeah, but the safeguards in place worked.

Pretty much what I was thinking. It actually demonstrates the flexibility of the system, more than anything else. Especially considering that many of these events occurred in the 60's when safeguards were far less restrictive than they are now. What the author fails to understand (or just decides to ignore) is that during that time a nuclear strike could hit with less than 15 minute warning. When something questionable occurred, alert status was increased just to be sure - not as a prelude to a counter-strike. In many of the incidents, there was a high degree of skepticism over the warnings but it was the prudent course of action to be ready just in case.

what, exactly 20?

oh, it's that 9/11 thing... tho what .818181818181818181818181818181 has to do with this I'll never know.