Nuclear War

"Little Boy"

Nostalgia is a powerful force when the Cold War is considered the good old days, but this War on Terror is in it's infancy and many folks are expressing a sort of wistfull desire for the simple bianary threat of total anihilation from decades past.

But just one crappy terrorist nuke screwing up a major city - where's the fun in that.

Here's an article from the chron that commemorates the 60th aniversary of the first day of the cold war and then describes why these days we're even worse off...

Of course, there's just a twinge of irrrationalality to the article: suggesting that "suicide bombers" and "terrorists" are scarrier nuke weilding enemies than the rational old days of the cold war.