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Message: [QUOTE="BSWIFT, post: 1227972, member: 16802"] I'll sleep as well as usual. The weapons are a necessary evil. I wouldn't mind living next to one of these bases or facilities. I'm much more likely to be killed or injured by a drive-by shooting than a nuclear weapon accident. In either case, it will make for a bad day, so why worry about it. If you have watched the TV show, Jericho, you have Hollywoods interpretation of life after a nuclear war. The show does not come close to what the reality will be. Rational people will become irrational in their quest for survival and I don't blame them. However, the inevitable contamination from a nuclear exchange will cause world wide destruction due to inability to produce uncontaminated food. So I remind you that assured mutual destruction is the best deterant and yes, accidents can and will happen. I did not read the entire list of reported accidents in the link but I will try to do so. The potential for catastrophic disaster existed in every case but safety measures did perform in most cases. Just yesterday, a worker was crushed by a trackhoe, moving at 2 mph and weighed 10 tons. You would think a person could see that coming? A nuclear blast will come in the blink of an eye but the result will be the same, a very bad day. Knowing that this topic can get a wide variety of veiw points and emotionally charged, this will be my last post in this thread, not because I'm afraid of the debate. I will gladly debate it via PM's or email. I appreciate the fact that this thread is still open and hopefully it will stay that way. [/QUOTE]

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