Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Math Junkie]

"In 1962 nobody had a good idea what a nuclear bomb was."

Having grown up in the fifties and sixties, I can tell you that we had a very good idea of what they were. For Pete's sake, by 1962 it had been 17 years since they had been used to obliterate Hiroshima and Nagasacki, and we had all seen pictures of the explosions and devastation, and had had the theory explained to us.

The Cuban Missile crisis was a very depressing time. I really thought it might be the end of everything. If the market only dropped about 5%, that certainly tends to support ajtj's argument.