Would YOU sacrifice New York City …?
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oldsalt61 — 14 years ago(March 08, 2012 08:10 PM)
Wasn't the Soviet PM already out of Moscow at the time the bomb went off? In addition to the reasons listed in favor of NYC over DC, I recall the heads of state having a conversation about them needing to be alive to insure it doesn't escalate.
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AustrianA340 — 14 years ago(March 13, 2012 12:39 PM)
It's interesting to see numerous replies stating:
"Never would I sacrifice American lives" I think I've only found one replier talking about human lives. And even worse than being selfish is wanting to sacrifice foreign lives as compensation. Would you be willing to swear on your friend??
I watched the movie Crimson Tide and Denzel Washington said some very true words: "In the nuclear world, war itself is the true enemy". I couldn't agree more I'd vote any president or country leader that is willing to fight this 'true' enemy. Many people believe wars are fought to preserve peace. I don't have to tell you the true motives of (the leading) nations wanting to start war. The Roman Empire, Spain and Britain during the Imperial Age, Austria-Hungary, Nazi-Germany, etc. all had one main reason to fight a war.. power and control. What makes you believe just because it's the 20th/21st century that the USA or the Soviet Union for that matter haven't followed the same motives? Do you really think that after thousands of years it got any different? World War I didn't learn from past wars, World War II didn't learn from World War I and World War III isn't going to learn from World War II and the history books in a thousand year are going to wonder about how stupid we were as we're wondering about the stupidity of the past wars. Talking about the presidents decision. Would I be able to do it? I guess not. but then again I couldn't even make the same decision for Moscow. For me killing people is killing people no matter if American, Russian, German, Chinese, etc.
But I think it was neccesary. and to sacrfice five million of ones own people for the sake of peace/not wanting war is always going to make more sense to me than to murder millions of people for the sake of power and control. I hope that in this story the USA and USSR have learnt their (very painful) lessons. -
bradford-1 — 13 years ago(July 12, 2012 12:02 PM)
I live in NYC, so obviously, I'd think long and hard about nuking myself and a few million others. But if I were the President, maybe. Actually, I might dispose of either Washington D.C. or the largest cache of nuclear weapons in the U.S.
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ls1961-687-342572 — 12 years ago(August 03, 2013 09:15 PM)
I was born in 1961 in NYC. This movie made a big impression on my parents and their friends. The Cuban Missile Crisis scared the hell out of my Mom & Dad. This movie resonated with them because they believed the President had made the only call he could. She believed a sacrifice of many American citizens is the only thing that would stop all out war. I think that's probably true. Also, as I recall, the 9-5 population of NYC in those days was around 10 million people.
I've learned since that many people thought their hometown was "ground zero" for a variety of reasons. New Yorkers thought they were ground zero for several reasons: the density of population, the destruction of financial centers and because NY is the cultural center of our country.