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kleinbl00  ·  4028 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Time Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Ever on Earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Hand

"Popular opinion" during the Reagan era was just as slippery as "popular opinion" during Bush II. There were a lot of marginalized democrats who could not.fucking.*believe* that Ronald "Bedtime for Bonzo" Reagan was holding the nuclear Football. I've got a rant about Red Dawn on here somewhere; that's fuckin' Morning in America.

My favorite "holy shit Reagan" book is The Clothes Have No Emperor.