<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:07 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>Does anyone else here remember that in 1982 nuclear war seemed likely?<br></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I do, but nuclear war seemed far FAR more likely in 1962. I was 13 at the time and remember wondering if I would still be alive in 24 hours. My father was worried too, he very rarely drank alcohol but the first thing he said after we finished watching Kennedy's Cuba speech on TV was "<i>I'm going to make myself a drink</i>".</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>