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kleinbl00  ·  4092 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Time Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Ever on Earth

In 1986, Gorbachev proposed banning ALL BALLISTIC MISSILES. All of them. All sub-launched, all IRBMs, everything in silos, everything on trains. We'd be left with cruise missiles and bombs. Reagan refused 'cuz he had such a hard-on for SDI.

…which the Soviets were oh so very much closer to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft)

Some excessively fucking stupid shit out of the '80s.