Nice Vintage Cold War Scare Film

[CaseyCampbell13]

a missile named after a shoe, yup, i would totally be scared of that

but if it was the other way around, than im gunna go buy some new nikes :P

[ciscokidseven]

@CaseyCampbell13 im not sure they had nike shoes back then

[zeke1312]

patton303 Your field of experience may be "drumming". Stay away from history. You obviously didn't learn anything in school on the subject. ;)

[NYWAORCANZ]

did he say niki( na-eye-ki)?

[CTL013]

My favorite was the dog who won the medal... Only in America

[epicpieho]

@Fredfredbug4 :P liberty prime fallout 3 reference ?

[Fredfredbug4]

Death is a preferable alternative to communism.

[ingaman]

"Nike! Whose true performance is a carefully guarded secret, tracks down it's target at supersonic speed" That should be the shoe slogan!

[SuperSovietBear]

Fuck all you people who say that Germans love the Nazis. Hitler came into power because the leader at that time put him in charge. Germany was desperate and Hitler got Germany back on it's feet. He was seen as a hero who had uncovered what the "problem" was. He brainwashed the people. It wasn't their fault and everyone has a rocky past. Germans now live in a kind of constant shame. It's sad!

[collegeman1988]

They launch an atomic shoe at the enemy???

[davidrodgersNJ]

My wife, and a lot of my friends grew up under Soviet tyranny. If some of you out there living in freedom and comfort think that the Soviet threat was some kind of joke, I suggest you think again. Maybe reading "The Gulag Archipelago" or “The Black Book of Communism” will help.

[redsocialist1848]

@davidrodgersNJ to bad you didn't get taken out in the fireing squad 

[davidrodgersNJ]

@redsocialist1848 Too bad you can't spell

[maypleasure]

Excuse me? I am from Germany and some of the comments I read about this video would be considered facist in my country. "Germany may not have of gotten as far as they did if Stalin hadn't killed so many experienced officers." this is seeing history a bit too simple and, a bit too patriotic. you should start fighting FOR a better education system instead of living your anti- communist paranoia.

[TruthApple88]

@maypleasure It is true,due to the repression of Stalin's system Red Army generals were liquiated and banned from using "Deep Operations" a new Soviet doctrine similar to the German blitzkrieg but relying more on highly trained infantry and sappers rather than tanks. I a certain that the German Whermacht would have been pushed back much sooner if Stalin allowed Red army units to retreat and did not kill his experienced men as well as Deep Operations military doctrine. Read Stalingrad.

[DerPanzerbaer]

@maypleasure

In present day "Germany" (or better what is left of it) anything is considered " fascist" that is remotely patriotic, common sense or pro-German in any way.

A typical left-wing dumbass living it's antifascist paranoia.

[deaddoc]

@maypleasure Maybe you ought to school yourself up on your own socialist state and how it is destroying Germany. Worry about yourself, Fritz.

[Halftrac]

Commies OUT of U.S. NOW!!!

[KRAZYCorps]

"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it." -Voltaire

[slobhinav]

The NIKE's performance was such a secret because it was a FAILURE hahaaha.

P.S. Stalin was Georgian..........not surprisingly.......not many Georgians were persecuted

[zeke1312]

@slobhinav Obviously you are a moron!

[NOBULLSPIN1]

We must destroy Communism, Socialism, Islam, and Marxism ASAP!

[TheTazTN]

@NOBULLSPIN1 Heil Hitler! Don't forget about Christianity, Corporatism, Homosexuality, Blacks, atheists, and all those other assholes that don't think like "we" do!

fas·cism [fash-iz-uhm] –noun

1.

( sometimes initial capital letter ) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

[deceiver123m]

@NOBULLSPIN1 forgot about zionism, and any other authoritarian master race/master society type government. And MOST important is to actually never unite into a single world government- it is the death of human freedom if we do unite under a Government of the World.

[deaddoc]

@deceiver123m Zionism is merely the idea of a Jewish homeland in Israel. Modern Israel is a democratic state, there are Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis, Christian Israelis, and others. This ridiculous Protocols of Zion junk was debunked ages ago. it was a fraud based on a fraud. Hitler was both ignorant and paranoid enough, and bigoted enough to believe it. Hitler had a Jewish grandparent. Grow up...

[deceiver123m]

@deaddoc nope, unite and die. Stay apart and all cultures will flourish.

[deaddoc]

@deceiver123m Strangely enough, I agree with you here. I just don't think that endorsing known and well proven conspiracy frauds like "The Protocols" serves any useful purpose except to provide detractors with easy attacks. Those who wish to see their people survive could learn a lot from Jews. Be loyal to your own and have a central, cultural focus, don't take in outsiders easily, etc.

[kashga11]

@NOBULLSPIN1 why?

[illlite]

I heard the Nike missile carried a nuclear payload. The fallout would be a little counter-productive if they were fighting of a nuclear attack. The agin the tactical nuclear warhead was all the rage back then: they put it in backpacks, free fire rockets, torpedos even recoilless rifle shells

[saylrp]

@illlite At that altitude, a tactical nuclear warhead wouldn't generate fallout (contaminating and kicking up debris). It does other nasty things, such as EMP and a blinding flash, and of course the blast, but those would also be diminished by the lower payload of the tactical yield warhead.

[ladino101]

@patton303 it was, i love watching videos from the McCarthy era. i love history and culture of the 50s. Fallout 3 lol.

[dutchgangsta1]

its funny how the ussr and usa were allies and suddenly rivals

[jake10nxg]

Communism in a nutshell says that everyone no matter what job they have gets payed the same, which is great for some people who currently have low paying jobs but bad for others like doctors who probebly wouldn't want to go to school for 19 years to get payed the same as a janitor who could get away with possibly no education. Another interpretation is that it's like a utopia type thing where it might sound wonderful to one person and horrible to the next.

[St3v3Patrio7]

Replace Stalin with Goldstein, or for that matter... Osama Bin Laden. You recieve what you read in 1984; hateful, mindless sheep.

[TalonWolf]

Uh... Communism isn't an evil system. Nor is Capitalism, for that matter. It's evil PEOPLE who exploit socio-political systems who are to blame. And for the record, tha's practically every single ruler out there.

Communism works incredibly well in small communities. Alas, due to industrialisation, nationalisation, globalisation etc. small communities are either non-existent and/or non-independent.

People suck. Bring on WW3.

[kutthroat84]

LOL Nike!

[ApocalypseGuide]

Check out

SurviveTheApocalypse . net

[LegendKnight93]

I believe I saw this or a video like thi where the missiles at 2:00 had needles on top, I came her to ask what kind those are.

[Generlj]

Now I just wanna play Fallout 3

[deltapunk21]

It was an anti-"scare" film showing America's defense to Commuist attack.

[Guevaristas]

north america will definately fall

[scwarzewaffe85]

@Guevaristas what makes u say that?

[Guevaristas]

"The testimony of witnesses is comparatively insignificant. Guilt or innocence may turn on what Marx or Engels or someone else wrote or advocated as much as a hundred years or more ago.[...] When the propriety of obnoxious or unfamiliar views about government is in reality made the crucial issue, [...] prejudice makes conviction inevitable except in the rarest circumstances."

The convictions of the indicted members were reversed.' in Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 1957) Black J

[xxdomoxxkunxx]

there's never been the "perfect" communist country the union Stalin and his madness, china government control out of hand i mean china is perfect (joke) but seriously ppl refer to the union as the word meaning communism when its not sure there not perfect but what country is? if only a third one appeared then this would come full circle IF they got there crap together by looking at the others its unlikely though for there to be a third until America falls which is probably going to happen soon:)

[patton303]

To say that Joseph Stalin was not a war criminal is completely ludicrous. Millions of his own people were shot, hanged and gassed.

He killed a lot of brilliant military figures as well.

Germany may not have of gotten as far as they did if Stalin hadn't killed so many experienced officers.

Not to mention when Russia invaded Germany,the Russians brutalized the German citizens who had nothing to do with the war..

[poitrenaud]

True

[JohnnyDart76]

@patton303: I don't doubt that some unfortunate happenings occurred in Germany after the war ended, but I have recently come across research that does suggest that if the Nazis had won instead of the Allies, they would have done something far worse to the Soviets.

How about perhaps 50 million dead Russians, and up to 50 million more as forced labor?

I'll try to find the info again sometime, if I can remember.

[Lunar1907890]

What about black men and yellow race people working and working (still) as fundament of capitalism? What about neocolonialistic leeching and slavery in Africa and Latin America - of ALL capitalist countries? Are you less drown in crime?

[shoegazer13]

@patton303

thats not the definition of a war crime tho my friend

I mean he was mad with power but those things you say do not make him a war criminal, it just mean he was a cruel leader.

[Redhammer627]

@patton303 ...And germans slaughtered over 25 million Soviet citizens. Innocent, good, hardworking people were killed to make "living room" for the german people, which was an organized slaughter. Some soldiers hated the germans, and therefore they killed german citizens too, but nowhere near as many people that died in the USSR.

[illlite]

@patton303 I believe that the red army's break in discipline was in inexcusable, but, you have to consider the fact that germany had killed plenty of allied countries' civilians. Also it would be favorable for you to provide some statistics as to the best of my knowledge; the Russian militants that "brutalized the German citizens" were a minority.

[MoscowMaestro]

@patton303 You need to eat less red meat! You're the most ill-informed yankee cunt I ever heard rant! Fuck off and die, scum!

[lostnorcalkid]

@patton303 The Germans did worse to the Russians civilians, but there were certainly atrocities on both sides.

[SIAFSX]

@patton303 Its all about alliances,kid. Get your Grade 9 world history right first.

[DandDskeeto]

@patton303 True, just remember he was murdering psychopath BEFORE the war ( collectivization in the Ukraine etc ), Then he really got ramped up.

[deaddoc]

@DandDskeeto Stalin was actually pursuing paranoid purges in the 1920s and again in the 1930s. A Russian film about the '30s purge won the Academy Award in 1992 (or so) for foreign film. It called, "Burnt by the Sun." Very, very good film in many ways.

[deaddoc]

@patton303 ..."the German citizens who had nothing to do with the war".. What!?! Read up on history and watch some Nuremberg Rally footage, and Triumph of the Will, etc. The German public 90% of it, was supportive of Hitler and the Nazis until the end, when he turned on them in the last few months. But he was nothing but a burned out, paranoid, speed freak by then.

[awesomeo406]

@patton303 nither did the russian civillians who were executed so russia didnt get mad... they got even

[limeboy44]

@awesomeo406 Russians just didnt kill Germans, They raped and pillaged there way through europe all the way to Berlin.

[donnyforte2]

@limeboy44 To be fair, the Russians civilians were also raped and pillaged by German soldiers. Doesn't make it right though.

[onkelmonokkel]

@patton303 Not to mention how many ukrainians he starved to death. Look up 'holodomor' on the wiki.

[Nikolaii2571]

@patton303 Not to mention that the British have supported Stalin's repatriation of the Cossaks. Those Russians who dared to escape were shot in the back by the British Armed Forces. My family was in Europe back then and we remember how they tried to repatriate my family, but we had help from the outside who provided us with false papers. The vets I talked to about this told me that they heard the sound of Soviet machine gun fire throughout the night. It did happen.

[pbrick6301]

Anybody who deefends communism isnt thinking straight. it might of brought you people some gold medals in the olympics but you had a losing record in wars, & you terrorized the good folks you supposedly were supposed to be protecting. I must admit I am impressd by the power of Josef Stalin & Ivan Koloff, but I am disapointed that you were ultimately crushed by Micheal Knight & a small small unit called FLAG.

Also, what a joke to Communists that Gorbachev whiskd to safety by Kit in 1991 coup.

[pbrick6301]

America didnt stop Grenada from being overthrown by Cuba. No, the credit for that should go to Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway and his brave unit.

[patton303]

yup... agreed....

[soldierboyz22]

@patton303 Heart Break Ridge baby!

[deltapunk21]

You mean Jimmuh Carter allowing terrorist in a bloody coup to impose the "New Jewel" movvement and allow a Soivet colony enforced by Cuban terrorists and scum to be placed on the island

[poitrenaud]

You are correct--Communism is the most Evil system in the world-

Fuck Che Guevara, the Homosexual, murdering moron-

Kill all Communists

[TheKirk15]

@poitrenaud

How many innocents have been killed by the invasions of capitalist countries?

[pbrick6301]

WHOA!!!

According to your biography you are around 57 yrs older then me.

What is your secret?

Seeing as you are 107 yrs old, I sincerely hope you live long enough to answr me of course.

[pbrick6301]

Stalin was okay because he never killed a single American but...most communist leaders like Lenin, Kruschev, Castro, Mao, and Rommel were murderous rapists looking to increase there wealth.

[brendantellsall]

Are we not forgetting the MILLIONS of his OWN PEOPLE he slaughtered most for absolutely no reason at all but for power and fear? Stalin was the very WORST one of ALL. Oh yes and also, I sincerely hope you are not referring to Erwin Rommel. He was not a Communist and he was one of the few Generals of Nazi Germany that were humane and logical.

[timeclock4000]

AHH no thats an oil rig.

[blueseamonkey]

Actually this seems a fairly balanced news report for the time. Does anyone else think the comment that, "Nike, whose true performance is a carefully guarded secret," is newsreader code for "it doesn't work at all"?

[bboucharde]

dwhirmire49,

Good posting. This is a typical example of newsreels shown in movie theaters in the 1950's, and it looks very "funny" to a lot of young, naive viewers. In fact, life in the 1950's was much more serious & complex than youngsters can imagine now. When I view these old films on YT, I notice that many viewers sneer at clips that promote national defense and traditional family life & morals. This is the result of postmodernist indoctrination in the schools, especially in the humanities.

[beatle1223]

we sneer because it was never needed and i was overhyped. Plus, whats so wrong about being comunist

[pbrick6301]

"Plus, whats so wrong about being comunist ?"......Why dont you ask one of the millions of people who lived under communism?

[pbrick6301]

The last post is exactly what I will call the truth. Movies like this & the American willpower that backed it was real.

[dwhirmire49]

May be a Nice Vintage Cold War Scare Film to you but the cold war was in fact real as was the murderous communist expansion.

[7omnia7]

Who tells me you aren't a filthy commie?

[dwhirmire49]

your comment makes no sense

[dwhirmire49]

7omnia7's comment makes no sense..

[SC360]

This is obviously what Starship Troopers took their news broadcast idea from except this man doesn't say want to know more?

[pbrick6301]

Other then our old friend Stalin, who helped us smash the Axis, I have no use for Communists. They continue to assault us. Communists dragged poor Elian Gonzalez from the home of his family in Miami a few years ago to return him to a life of misery.

[Militantgrandma]

Obviously you don't know many Communists. Next time you need help from your Union, just remember who set it up.

[cozakaxo]

this smells of nationalism

[geoffck1969]

Can you please tell me what was so 'loony' about this film?

[angelofdeath556]

Say what you want about McCarthy- he was right. We'd probably be speaking Russian now if not for him.

[knucklesandwichanarc]

Yeah, and Glen Beck had a tougher life than minority children from the ghetto. And the Religious Right is a persecuted minority because they can't have Jesus in their courthouses.

[PatronusSecretum]

Sir, I've studied McCarthy for a long time and let me tell you in what you are wrong.

McCarthy was so far from the truth and yet so close to it.

In fact, a communist takeover would never had happened in the United States so you wouldn't be speaking russian now. All of what McCarthy did was ruing lives and spread fear. He didn't help in anything against communism.

But, there was really espionnage from soviet union in USA through the CPUSA so, in that way, it was right from the governement to act.

[richardaiken1]

communists suck. American children and puppies are the best.

[Militantgrandma]

And how old are you? Three?

[pbrick6301]

I am 46 yrs old ma'am.

I dont remember much about the Cold War but I do recall how this country pulled together to defeat the Grenadans in 1983. The domino effect was stopped dead in its tracks by the brave American Military. By the way, my union didnt do me any good in March of this year when I was laid off.

[Militantgrandma]

Then obvioulsy you need to find a better Union. Some of them are crap, I'll admit.

[pbrick6301]

Thanks for the heads up.

[CommieThinker]

Granada was a Fascist dictatorship, trying to transcend to Socialism. THATS why America stopped them.  MUCH better fascism than Socialism or Communism......(sarcasm)

[poitrenaud]

You are so, so fucking dimented. What a ridiculous moron. If you truly lived in a former communist country, you would not ever talk the way you do.

My wife is from Belarus. And her father was a loyal Soldier during WW2, fought in the Soviet Army.

Her entire family "followed the program" and because they did not believe in Communism and they Believed in God, they were totally persecuted and live in abject poverty, along with 80% of the rest of the country.

You are truly a dilusional idiot.

[LittlePinky82]

@poitrenaud You aren't one to talk about being an idiot. You don't know communism at all. I bet you haven't ever read the Manifesto.

[LittlePinky82]

@poitrenaud All I'll say to that is disgusting.

[Lunar1907890]

So what your brilliant Capitalism does to these ugly people? Let them die? Let them be kicked off away from us, beautiful intelligents? This is fascism.

[TheAwesome45]

@poitrenaud You are what's wrong with America.

[LittlePinky82]

@poitrenaud Oh and I bet you didn't know Stalin even tortured and killed other commies who challenged him.

[poitrenaud]

Stalin was a GIGANTIC HITLER-

Fuck Communism-

[tyrlop]

omg, for one second i though. omg hahaha

[doinblow]

1/2 ton warhead to take down a bomber...that is insane. HAHA!

[Hedhnter]

How can you people be talking about politics and be ignoring the best story of the clip? OOH THE DOGGY SAVED THE LITTLE BOY! SO CUUUUTE!!!

[kansas165]

Unions AREN'T necessary, since individual workers can bargain directly with corporate CEOs and Board members-- assuming that they can find them, get past security, and avoid a summary firing with concurrent arrest. Why I was chatting with Bill Gates myself, just the other day... and I negotiated a FAT raise and generous benefits package! We are now on a "first-names basis!"

[VoodooDangerbird]

Think for yourself, question authority

[GeneralBerger]

GO AMERICA!!!! Long Live Capitalism!

[zachbb]

lol dosen't look like it'll live that long.. it's only been 100 years and capitalism is already breaking down.

[GeneralBerger]

actually Capitalism was founded around the Enlightenment Age(almsot 400 years ago). And it isn't Capitalism that is breaking down, it is Socialism. For Capitalism to work, it must be absolute Laissez-faire

[zachbb]

uh no... capitalism is BASED on Adam Smith, and it has evolved since. It is very recent.

And socialism is not breaking down.. Capitalism is. Its a problem of alientation, invisable competition, continous production and consumption, etc.

Socialism is the only thing SAVING capitalism. The bail out plans, the subsidies to the auto industry, the buying of banks and insurance funds... thats socialism saving the capitalist system.

[GeneralBerger]

That bailing out crap isn't doing a thing. It is just making the government more in debt. If they want to do things right, just let it run its course.

[zachbb]

The bail out is the only thing that prevented capitalism from collapsing completely. If they had not bailed out the big banks, the US would be screwed right now.

Letting things run their course is what's been happening and it's what has got us into this mess to begin with.

[GeneralBerger]

no the reason why this has happened is because of stupid red-tape crap, like unions and other forms the of the tape that make running a efficient business impossible nowadays.

[zachbb]

uh no.. that makes no sense.

What have unions got to do with the sub primes? Nothing..

Unions do make sure that people benifit from the economy though. In fact, Roosevelt actually encouraged unions in his New Deal economics as a recovery plan!

[GeneralBerger]

unions halt businesses from growing and expanding. They prevent Capitalism from working as it should work. If you like socialism its fine with me we will both just have to see how the current economic situation unfolds.

[jackriter]

Lassie Faire sounds nice, just like America 1880-1920, fucking brilliant economically free times. Workers love not having minnimum wage or job security!

[drhelio212]

Workers also loved working all those long hours of the week with that little wage or job security. Simply, if they died, we can always get more people to work shit wages. Oh, well. It's okay to be rich while the poor live worthless lives. Eugenics will return as well to explain why the poor are supposedly genetically inferior and not worthy of having children.

[timnorfleet]

Unions do NOT stop businesses from growing and expanding, nor do they prevent capitalism from working. Unions are a product of capitalism which is why the old USSR outlawed them. One of the reasons Poland was able to become free from communism was because of the Solidarity Union.

[Dudtz]

The Nike Hercules is a stupid concept.

Nuclear Radiate your own people to destroy some bombers.

[venushalley]

ain't this precious?

I love such videos. Venus, from the other side of the iron curtain.

[fromthesidelines]

These are segments from a weekly Universal-International newsreel [Ed Herlihy, narrator], released theatrically, which usually reflected the events and "fads" being reported...watch several complete "issues", and you'll get an idea of how "loony" life was back then.

[Zeanu]

EVERYONE'S A COMMUNIST, HOLY SH--

[RedneckSkippy]

I thought that "Texas Towers" were going to be called Wal-Mart, considering the missiles were Nikes.

[SuperDude2569]

Our times we live in are much the same as that of the ancient greeks which many are familiar with from the recent film "300". President Bush is suffering a temporary defeat much as Leonidus did, but his character and determination to stay the course and see the evils or Al-Qaeda and the fascist/communist associations of the fanatial muslim world with the socialists of eastern europe will unite "ALL OF GREECE" (U.S.) to respond and defeat the Persian empire. History repeats itself indefinitely!

[nivmizzet926]

Things are not changed since 1950. In THat time was the Red Terror. Now is the Al Quaeda Terror. A Scared, paranoic population that fears the boogieman is easier to control.

[NorskeDivision]

Right. I suppose it's convenient for you to claim that all threats, ever, against the US are invented by the government. I don't know if you're aware of this, but the Soviet Union actually had the explicit goal of replacing the entire world with communism. In our modern world it's easy to believe that any suggestion that would could be in danger is propaganda simply because we are so overwhelming safe. But the treat of tyranny was once relatively imminent. Thanks to hard work it no longer is.

[ytbentrlldkt]

Tyranny?

[boomac62]

And the USA had the goal of spreading Capatalism around the world, and we supported MANY a brutal dictator to reach that goal. What do you care about victims of such pro-USA dictators, they were not your children,your wife or husband....what do you care.

[NorskeDivision]

Fair enough, I'm not justifying it. But that doesn't discredit Capitalism as an economic system, those were political decisions (in other words, Marx was wrong, Capitalism does not depend on the continual exploitation of new countries).

[boomac62]

I just feel both systems have many victims, I would rather live under our system but i can't say I like it. But, Stalinism was much worse...

[DANxCHORIN]

New countries have been exploited throughout the entire history of capitalism. See the current age of globalization, with trade agreements that destroy the working people of the 'third world', and the Iraq war.

[benfirst]

Wow. People were even more stupid than normal back then. Of course it must have been normal to have been that stupid back then..

[UnvocalBrevity]

And you think we are smart now?

[patton303]

Dead weight anyway.

No pun intended.

[Vmiroshnikov]

check out the kids haircut in 4:20 !!!!

[nivmizzet926]

Damn! their parents must have sent him to the same barber they sent the dog to!

[cybercow222]

war is sheat

[luridplanet]

The US always had a technical lead in nuclear weapons. The problem was we built 100 times too many of them.

[patton303]

There was only one protocol back then and it was

"Anything you can do,I can do better."

[Mas73rCh33f]

actually a missile gap began to develop in the 80s when we announced "star wars". the soviets produced as many missiles as possible as quickly as possible in order to overwhelm our defenses. naturally, not the best idea, but faultless Marxist logic never lies...

[cupoftea1970]

Nice vid, need less energy, wear wool. kevin, Ireland

[superbruce]

I agrere- this was a very serious time, and its so easy for a 'spoiled" generation that has'nt grown -up w/ this threat to sneer and make fun of the what could of become a horrible reality- and still could!

[no1ron]

Scare Film my ass. It was real in those days. I was working on Nike Missiles and am proud to have been able to a little in the demise of the Soviet Union. Don/t be so quick to judge what you probably didn't experience.

[patton303]

Well jolly good for you pal.

I'm not 18 years old man.

In fact my high school backed up to the NORAD property line in Colorado Springs. And I went there during the Evil Empire era. It made me a little nervous.

But I stand by my title in that news companies of the 50's and 60's used minor chord soundtracks and quick edits to embellish the otherwise boring footage.

Scare tactics are what the media is all about.

Or perhaps you don't watch Fox.

[zeke1312]

"Scare film"? In the 50s, that was reality. Looking back, hindsight looks at history through jaded glasses trying to compare it to todays events. In the future, a look back on todays news may produce the same mindset. Roadside bombs kill everything in its radius is a horrific event, affecting many thousands including our troops.

The 50s Cold War and the "atomic" threat potentially would have obliterated mankind.