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		By: JGL		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JGL]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-87034&quot;&gt;Chuck Penson&lt;/a&gt;.

My friend worked in the silos but was not an eye witness but knew of and confirmed the incident to me. He is above misleading me, all of those guys were the cream of the crop for the job. These are part of the 5% of unexplainable events that professionals in science will not comment on for good reason, they get tagged with the &quot;crazy&quot; tag, lose credibility and government funding.

There is something there, I just don&#039;t know what it is. (I hate that)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-87034">Chuck Penson</a>.</p>
<p>My friend worked in the silos but was not an eye witness but knew of and confirmed the incident to me. He is above misleading me, all of those guys were the cream of the crop for the job. These are part of the 5% of unexplainable events that professionals in science will not comment on for good reason, they get tagged with the &#8220;crazy&#8221; tag, lose credibility and government funding.</p>
<p>There is something there, I just don&#8217;t know what it is. (I hate that)</p>
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		By: Chuck Penson		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chuck Penson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With regard to silos being probed: No incidents at Titan II facilities have come to my attention, but in the mid-70s many northern tier AF bases had UFO sightings, and at Great Falls MT (were I happened to live at the time) many Minuteman sites were visited by UFOs. I have first-hand experience with the affair, but the episodes were covered in a book called &quot;Clear Intent,&quot; by Lawrence Fawcett (available from Amazon, et al). The specific chapter in the book is &quot;Faded Giant.&quot; Very interesting stuff...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With regard to silos being probed: No incidents at Titan II facilities have come to my attention, but in the mid-70s many northern tier AF bases had UFO sightings, and at Great Falls MT (were I happened to live at the time) many Minuteman sites were visited by UFOs. I have first-hand experience with the affair, but the episodes were covered in a book called &#8220;Clear Intent,&#8221; by Lawrence Fawcett (available from Amazon, et al). The specific chapter in the book is &#8220;Faded Giant.&#8221; Very interesting stuff&#8230;</p>
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		By: J FIncannon		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[J FIncannon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-86478&quot;&gt;Robert Zimmerman&lt;/a&gt;.

It is interesting to note that NASA funded work by the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) through JPL into ESP communications a couple years after Apollo 14.  An interesting report was issued which you will have to judge for yourself.

Results:
&quot;The SRI investigators in the report that follows (unedited by NASA or JPL) draw positive conclusions regarding ESP communications and learning.&quot;
But, oddly,
&quot;NASA has concluded that there is currently no basis for support of further investigations.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-86478">Robert Zimmerman</a>.</p>
<p>It is interesting to note that NASA funded work by the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) through JPL into ESP communications a couple years after Apollo 14.  An interesting report was issued which you will have to judge for yourself.</p>
<p>Results:<br />
&#8220;The SRI investigators in the report that follows (unedited by NASA or JPL) draw positive conclusions regarding ESP communications and learning.&#8221;<br />
But, oddly,<br />
&#8220;NASA has concluded that there is currently no basis for support of further investigations.&#8221;</p>
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		By: Al		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Al]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks for sharing these.  I had a chill thinking of what it must have been like sitting in the cold blue florescent light for days on end waiting to receive the launch command.  I&#039;m can&#039;t imaging having that duty and I&#039;m glad those days are behind.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for sharing these.  I had a chill thinking of what it must have been like sitting in the cold blue florescent light for days on end waiting to receive the launch command.  I&#8217;m can&#8217;t imaging having that duty and I&#8217;m glad those days are behind.</p>
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		By: danae		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[danae]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you for the tour.  This is the only missile silo I&#039;ve seen online that hasn&#039;t been stripped and vandalized, or converted into a residence.  The scale the the silo is very impressive.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for the tour.  This is the only missile silo I&#8217;ve seen online that hasn&#8217;t been stripped and vandalized, or converted into a residence.  The scale the the silo is very impressive.</p>
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		By: Steve MIller		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve MIller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This missile silo reminds me of the hardened network AT&#038;T built in the late fifties and sixties. It employed two or three story underground buildings supported on large springs designed to withstand near nuclear misses. There were automatic blast doors and sensors to lock down the building upon shock. If I recall correctly, the buildings had enough supplies and fuel for the diesel generators to last at least a month. These sites were built away from major cities to improve survivability. Feeder routes were built from these “junction” offices into the cities. In those days microwave radio and coaxial cables carried communications traffic with the latter being more survivable. The plan was to have a backbone network around during and post a nuclear war. 

The electronics, cable, and buildings were also designed to survive EMP effects. I worry that EMP isn’t being given much thrift these days. Our civilization is really quite fragile given our reliance on electronics. A solar flare of the magnitude of one in the 1860’s or a nuclear bomb over the US would be an almost unimaginable disaster. 

By the way, building a survivable network was extremely expensive but recall that AT&#038;T had a monopoly then and the government supported this effort. When MCI and competition came along these costs could no longer be supported and no further hardened buildings were built.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This missile silo reminds me of the hardened network AT&amp;T built in the late fifties and sixties. It employed two or three story underground buildings supported on large springs designed to withstand near nuclear misses. There were automatic blast doors and sensors to lock down the building upon shock. If I recall correctly, the buildings had enough supplies and fuel for the diesel generators to last at least a month. These sites were built away from major cities to improve survivability. Feeder routes were built from these “junction” offices into the cities. In those days microwave radio and coaxial cables carried communications traffic with the latter being more survivable. The plan was to have a backbone network around during and post a nuclear war. </p>
<p>The electronics, cable, and buildings were also designed to survive EMP effects. I worry that EMP isn’t being given much thrift these days. Our civilization is really quite fragile given our reliance on electronics. A solar flare of the magnitude of one in the 1860’s or a nuclear bomb over the US would be an almost unimaginable disaster. </p>
<p>By the way, building a survivable network was extremely expensive but recall that AT&amp;T had a monopoly then and the government supported this effort. When MCI and competition came along these costs could no longer be supported and no further hardened buildings were built.</p>
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		By: JGL		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JGL]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-86506&quot;&gt;Phil Berardelli&lt;/a&gt;.

What about instances when there are more than one observer, sometimes many more than one, and they all see the same things from different places sometimes miles apart ?

These can be energy like things which morph in shape and intensity and then there seem to be more mechanical appearing &quot;craft&quot;, both appear to be under intelligent control. In addition, the term &quot;flying&quot; seems to be inaccurate to me, what ever they are they appear to be manipulating space and are not &quot;flying&quot; in the strict sense of the word.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-86506">Phil Berardelli</a>.</p>
<p>What about instances when there are more than one observer, sometimes many more than one, and they all see the same things from different places sometimes miles apart ?</p>
<p>These can be energy like things which morph in shape and intensity and then there seem to be more mechanical appearing &#8220;craft&#8221;, both appear to be under intelligent control. In addition, the term &#8220;flying&#8221; seems to be inaccurate to me, what ever they are they appear to be manipulating space and are not &#8220;flying&#8221; in the strict sense of the word.</p>
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		By: Phil Berardelli		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Berardelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-86506&quot;&gt;Phil Berardelli&lt;/a&gt;.

BTW, great photos, Bob. Thanks for sharing.]]></description>
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<p>BTW, great photos, Bob. Thanks for sharing.</p>
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		By: Phil Berardelli		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Berardelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think Carl Sagan described these phenomena best when he said humans are, above all, pattern recognizers. In other words, we can distinguish familiar images from otherwise chaotic sources. Also, the brain has ways of playing subtle tricks on us. On a personal level, I&#039;ve watched movies all my life and retain vivid memories of them -- or so I think. But sometimes when I revisit a film and see the scene performed or the dialogue uttered, it&#039;s different from how I remember it, even though, as I said, my memory is vivid. It&#039;s a bit unnerving. This tendency applies even more firmly when we experience something unexpected in real time. I remember watching the second plane hit the World Trade Center on television, from a CNN camera placed somewhere north of the twin towers. At the time, I swore a saw the plane swooping in from the north and hitting the tower right in front of me, but subsequent playbacks showed, as it actually happened, the plane arrived from the south, and what I saw was it crashing through the tower, exploding its fuel on the north side. 

This is a long-winded way of saying that human perception is a tricky process, and many things we think we see are either not there or are unfolding differently than our eyes and brains are telling us. So far, to my knowledge, there has not been a single shred of tangible evidence that our planet has been visited by intelligent aliens. It seems astounding, given the vastness of even our own galaxy and the steady discovery of planets within the potential habitable zone. But as Sagan also said, because of human fallibility extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Carl Sagan described these phenomena best when he said humans are, above all, pattern recognizers. In other words, we can distinguish familiar images from otherwise chaotic sources. Also, the brain has ways of playing subtle tricks on us. On a personal level, I&#8217;ve watched movies all my life and retain vivid memories of them &#8212; or so I think. But sometimes when I revisit a film and see the scene performed or the dialogue uttered, it&#8217;s different from how I remember it, even though, as I said, my memory is vivid. It&#8217;s a bit unnerving. This tendency applies even more firmly when we experience something unexpected in real time. I remember watching the second plane hit the World Trade Center on television, from a CNN camera placed somewhere north of the twin towers. At the time, I swore a saw the plane swooping in from the north and hitting the tower right in front of me, but subsequent playbacks showed, as it actually happened, the plane arrived from the south, and what I saw was it crashing through the tower, exploding its fuel on the north side. </p>
<p>This is a long-winded way of saying that human perception is a tricky process, and many things we think we see are either not there or are unfolding differently than our eyes and brains are telling us. So far, to my knowledge, there has not been a single shred of tangible evidence that our planet has been visited by intelligent aliens. It seems astounding, given the vastness of even our own galaxy and the steady discovery of planets within the potential habitable zone. But as Sagan also said, because of human fallibility extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.</p>
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		By: JGL		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JGL]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-86479&quot;&gt;Chris Kirkendall&lt;/a&gt;.

Javques Valle is a balanced and interesting investigator, he points out that humans have been observing and recording something in the sky&#039;s and other interactions for millenia. I think that we have to recognize that the human animal has certain limitations in their ability to perceive and understand what they are perceiving. An interesting and controversial subject that not everyone is willing to express an opinion on. 

My conclusion? 

They are not, can not all be crazy, there is something there, what that something is though, I don&#039;t know.]]></description>
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<p>Javques Valle is a balanced and interesting investigator, he points out that humans have been observing and recording something in the sky&#8217;s and other interactions for millenia. I think that we have to recognize that the human animal has certain limitations in their ability to perceive and understand what they are perceiving. An interesting and controversial subject that not everyone is willing to express an opinion on. </p>
<p>My conclusion? </p>
<p>They are not, can not all be crazy, there is something there, what that something is though, I don&#8217;t know.</p>
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		By: JGL		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JGL]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-86478&quot;&gt;Robert Zimmerman&lt;/a&gt;.

Any comment on the silo&#039;s being probed story&#039;s?]]></description>
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<p>Any comment on the silo&#8217;s being probed story&#8217;s?</p>
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		By: Chris Kirkendall		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kirkendall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have no idea what the truth of UFOs is - it&#039;s a &quot;real&quot; phenomenon, in that many thousands of reliable people have reported these things. Now whether they represent extra-terrestrial life is another matter, but it&#039;s always interesting to hear from people who are certainly NOT kooks - airline pilots, military, people who are trained in &#038; familiar with all types of aircraft as well as celestial phenomona (meteors, as well as unusual weather phenomena, etc.). I do recall reading that Mitchell - who went to the Moon on Apollo 14 - said he&#039;d witnessed something unusual. Testimony from a guy as highly trained, intelligent &#038; obviously, emotionally stable (all traits required of Astronauts) carries some weight. I wonder if we&#039;ll ever know what these are?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have no idea what the truth of UFOs is &#8211; it&#8217;s a &#8220;real&#8221; phenomenon, in that many thousands of reliable people have reported these things. Now whether they represent extra-terrestrial life is another matter, but it&#8217;s always interesting to hear from people who are certainly NOT kooks &#8211; airline pilots, military, people who are trained in &amp; familiar with all types of aircraft as well as celestial phenomona (meteors, as well as unusual weather phenomena, etc.). I do recall reading that Mitchell &#8211; who went to the Moon on Apollo 14 &#8211; said he&#8217;d witnessed something unusual. Testimony from a guy as highly trained, intelligent &amp; obviously, emotionally stable (all traits required of Astronauts) carries some weight. I wonder if we&#8217;ll ever know what these are?</p>
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		By: Robert Zimmerman		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Zimmerman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-86477&quot;&gt;JGL&lt;/a&gt;.

I respect Edgar Mitchell as an astronaut, but his attempts at science in the fields of ESP and extra-terrestrials have generally been somewhat embarrassing, not for the attempts but for his refusal to accept the results. For example, on his Apollo mission to the Moon he took ESP cards with him and did an experiment whereby, at a designated time, four friends on Earth would attempt to identify the cards he was looking at. When they added up the data they found the number of successful hits were no more than what you would get with random choices. There was no evidence of ESP at all. Sadly, Mitchell did not accept these results and has pushed on regardless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/visiting-a-nuclear-missile-silo/#comment-86477">JGL</a>.</p>
<p>I respect Edgar Mitchell as an astronaut, but his attempts at science in the fields of ESP and extra-terrestrials have generally been somewhat embarrassing, not for the attempts but for his refusal to accept the results. For example, on his Apollo mission to the Moon he took ESP cards with him and did an experiment whereby, at a designated time, four friends on Earth would attempt to identify the cards he was looking at. When they added up the data they found the number of successful hits were no more than what you would get with random choices. There was no evidence of ESP at all. Sadly, Mitchell did not accept these results and has pushed on regardless.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JGL]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Very cool.

A friend of mine was in the military and worked in the silos, I just found a patch he gave me, it says 341 MXS. I had heard a story about an incident where unauthorized &quot;lights&quot; were observed over missile silos and apparently probing them with some sort of other lights and these activities were accompanied with unauthorized manipulations of the systems. I thought this story was some kind of sci fi, Hollywood BS and I asked him about it and he confirmed that it was not BS and that it did in deed happen. In addition I recently viewed a  youtube video featuring former astronaut  Edgar Mitchell who had some interesting things to say on the subject of extra terrestrials. Would you have any comment on this subject Mr. Zimmerman? (or anyone else) Being so closely involved in the subject of science and space I though you might have come across  people in this field who have other interesting story&#039;s.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very cool.</p>
<p>A friend of mine was in the military and worked in the silos, I just found a patch he gave me, it says 341 MXS. I had heard a story about an incident where unauthorized &#8220;lights&#8221; were observed over missile silos and apparently probing them with some sort of other lights and these activities were accompanied with unauthorized manipulations of the systems. I thought this story was some kind of sci fi, Hollywood BS and I asked him about it and he confirmed that it was not BS and that it did in deed happen. In addition I recently viewed a  youtube video featuring former astronaut  Edgar Mitchell who had some interesting things to say on the subject of extra terrestrials. Would you have any comment on this subject Mr. Zimmerman? (or anyone else) Being so closely involved in the subject of science and space I though you might have come across  people in this field who have other interesting story&#8217;s.</p>
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		By: Chris Kirkendall		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kirkendall]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fascinatuing stuff, Bob - thanks for posting it! ! As a kid born in the early 50s &#038; growing up in the 60s, I knew all about our ICBMs &#038; the &quot;Nuclear Triad&quot;- Land-launched missiles, sub-launched missiles, and Bombers, the thinking being that it would be nearly impossible for an enemy to take out all three before we could retaliate with overwhelming force. And as you said, it worked - there was never a nuclear war because the consequences would&#039;ve been so horrific. This is a concept I don&#039;t believe Obama understands - he just thinks the very idea of these weapons is abhorrent. What he fails to understand is that, as military planners themselves said, if you ever have to use them, they&#039;ve aleady failed their purpose. Disarming the U.S will most certainly NOT lead to world peace. That notion is about as foolish as Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper with Hitler&#039;s signature &#038; proclaiming &quot;We have peace in our time&quot; &#038; we all know how THAT turned out!

Anyway, very interesting to see what one of these silos actually looked like &#038; it takes me back to a time when there really was actual fear of nuclear conflagration. Krushchev pounding his shoe on the podium at the UN &#038; threatening &quot;We will bury you !&quot; while detonating the most powerful H-Bombs ever produced (one with a yield estimated at 100 Megatons) made our choices pretty clear ! !]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fascinatuing stuff, Bob &#8211; thanks for posting it! ! As a kid born in the early 50s &amp; growing up in the 60s, I knew all about our ICBMs &amp; the &#8220;Nuclear Triad&#8221;- Land-launched missiles, sub-launched missiles, and Bombers, the thinking being that it would be nearly impossible for an enemy to take out all three before we could retaliate with overwhelming force. And as you said, it worked &#8211; there was never a nuclear war because the consequences would&#8217;ve been so horrific. This is a concept I don&#8217;t believe Obama understands &#8211; he just thinks the very idea of these weapons is abhorrent. What he fails to understand is that, as military planners themselves said, if you ever have to use them, they&#8217;ve aleady failed their purpose. Disarming the U.S will most certainly NOT lead to world peace. That notion is about as foolish as Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper with Hitler&#8217;s signature &amp; proclaiming &#8220;We have peace in our time&#8221; &amp; we all know how THAT turned out!</p>
<p>Anyway, very interesting to see what one of these silos actually looked like &amp; it takes me back to a time when there really was actual fear of nuclear conflagration. Krushchev pounding his shoe on the podium at the UN &amp; threatening &#8220;We will bury you !&#8221; while detonating the most powerful H-Bombs ever produced (one with a yield estimated at 100 Megatons) made our choices pretty clear ! !</p>
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