Cold war sig. Announcement
Posted: April 2nd, 2012, 9:22 pm
As of the 1st April I became leader of the Cold war sig from the safe hands of Chris / Falcon. I had various reasons for wishing to do this but the main driver for me was that I did not want this group to wither and die. The sig concentrates on creating replicas in miniature the historic tools of Armageddon that were fielded by the NATO and the Warsaw pact nations in this almighty face off that lasted for over four decades and is probably THE most important part of our modern history.
For my part I am a child of the 60's. 1965 to be exact. The two factions were at their most aggressive and the Cuban missile crisis had taken the world to the brink of total war just three years before.
It was less than two decades before that the soviet union had blockaded Berlin (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) and the Allies had taken the unprecedented and audacious step of supplying the city with all it's needs by air, the operation being called Operation Planefare by the British and Operation Vittles by the Americans.
Lets wind the clock forward. On Christmas eve 1991 the US President, George H.W. Bush received a phone call from the Premier of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin. The contents of the conversation led George H.W. Bush to announce to the world on his Christmas day speech that the cold war was over. The end of a period in history which could very easily have ended civilization, and probably almost ALL life on our planet.
The thought that only cockroaches would have survived may have meant that political infrastructure may have been unaffected, or even improved is beside the point.
Joking aside this period shows that man's ultimate folly could have been it's ultimate destruction.
Thankfully it did not happen as it would have been a war with no winners. only losers.
All the best.
Greg
For my part I am a child of the 60's. 1965 to be exact. The two factions were at their most aggressive and the Cuban missile crisis had taken the world to the brink of total war just three years before.
It was less than two decades before that the soviet union had blockaded Berlin (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) and the Allies had taken the unprecedented and audacious step of supplying the city with all it's needs by air, the operation being called Operation Planefare by the British and Operation Vittles by the Americans.
Lets wind the clock forward. On Christmas eve 1991 the US President, George H.W. Bush received a phone call from the Premier of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin. The contents of the conversation led George H.W. Bush to announce to the world on his Christmas day speech that the cold war was over. The end of a period in history which could very easily have ended civilization, and probably almost ALL life on our planet.
The thought that only cockroaches would have survived may have meant that political infrastructure may have been unaffected, or even improved is beside the point.
Joking aside this period shows that man's ultimate folly could have been it's ultimate destruction.
Thankfully it did not happen as it would have been a war with no winners. only losers.
All the best.
Greg