A very dangerous day

[BiggEggo]

So relieved I've made it most of the way through the most dangerous day.

Hope I'm not the only one left.

OP will be along in a moment to tell us his mate gave him the wrong day and danger day is actually tomorrow.

Not trolling fella but there's more chance of the whole of this board being hit by the same bus.

 

[Muttley]

So relieved I've made it most of the way through the most dangerous day.

Hope I'm not the only one left.

OP will be along in a moment to tell us his mate gave him the wrong day and danger day is actually tomorrow.

Not trolling fella but there's more chance of the whole of this board being hit by the same bus.

Like me, I guess you lived through 26 September 1983?

On that day, a Monday, I went to work as normal. I would have been working at the Post Office in Darlington (it might have been my day off, history does not record this) but somewhere to the east...

In the early hours of the morning, the Soviet Union's early-warning systems detected an incoming missile strike from the United States. Computer readouts suggested several missiles had been launched. The protocol for the Soviet military would have been to retaliate with a nuclear attack of its own.
But duty officer Stanislav Petrov - whose job it was to register apparent enemy missile launches - decided not to report them to his superiors, and instead dismissed them as a false alarm.

That's how we live through dangerous days. Blissfully unaware.

You may also have lived through the Cuban missile crisis? On one day 27th October 1962 a senior Russian submarine officer, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo at an American aircraft carrier and likely prevented a third world war and nuclear destruction.

I guess on that day I was more concerned (as far as I was concerned with anything) with the recent arrival of my younger brother?

Let's hope we get through the rest of the Dangerous Days together.

 

[borolad259]

So relieved I've made it most of the way through the most dangerous day.

Hope I'm not the only one left.

OP will be along in a moment to tell us his mate gave him the wrong day and danger day is actually tomorrow.

Not trolling fella but there's more chance of the whole of this board being hit by the same bus.

Trolling. Just do one from the thread if you think it's bogus.

 

[borolad259]

Like me, I guess you lived through 26 September 1983?

On that day, a Monday, I went to work as normal. I would have been working at the Post Office in Darlington (it might have been my day off, history does not record this) but somewhere to the east...

That's how we live through dangerous days. Blissfully unaware.

You may also have lived through the Cuban missile crisis? On one day 27th October 1962 a senior Russian submarine officer, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo at an American aircraft carrier and likely prevented a third world war and nuclear destruction.

I guess on that day I was more concerned (as far as I was concerned with anything) with the recent arrival of my younger brother?

Let's hope we get through the rest of the Dangerous Days together.

The NPP is still in a war zone and, although the rogue commander is out and fuel for cooling has been delivered, it still poses a significant danger for the planet. Admittedly, so do a lot of other things, like Grimsvotn, Taal etc. After the events of the last 24 hours in Moscow, I'd still say we're in a dangerous place.