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Nun, dann guckt mal hier.
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Consider, for example, the massive campaign of “civil defense” that America launched immediately thereafter, leading to the construction of large numbers of fallout shelters throughout the country, including the backyard suburban ones which generated some famous ironic images. Although I’m hardly an expert on nuclear war, the motivation had never made much sense to me, since in most cases the supplies would only have been sufficient to last a few weeks or so, while the deadly radioactive fallout from numerous Soviet thermonuclear strikes on our urban centers would have been long-lasting. But an American first strike changes this picture. A successful U.S. attack would have ensured that few if any bombs fell on American soil, with the shelters intended merely to provide a couple of weeks of useful protection until the global radioactive dust-clouds resulting from the nuclear destruction of the Soviet Union had dissipated, and these anyway would have only reached America in highly attenuated form.
Und natürlich muss man dann auch aus neuem Blickwinkel über die Kubakrise nachdenken. Vielleicht sind die Russen da überhaupt nur hin, weil sie von den konkreten Erstschlagsplänen der Amerikaner Wind bekommen haben.Ich für meinen Teil hatte schon mehrfach gehört, dass Kennedy von "Hawks" umgeben war, die gerne einen Erstschlag gegen die Sowjets machen wollten. Aber die Interpretation dieser Garten-Shelters war mir neu und klingt für mich erschreckend glaubwürdig. Duck & Cover!