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Originally Posted by Daradon
While it was obviously very scary when it happened, there was a bit of western propaganda surrounding the event. With information that has come out since and the perspective that comes with time, I dunno if it was ever THAT close to be honest. The closest we ever came yes, but the brink, probably not.
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I don't know if you were alive then and old enough to know what was happening, but Iit was eerily close. I was in school and we had to do shelter drills where we took refuge under our desks. We were darn close. I've read a little about that period and disagree that we weren't really close.