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From: Boebert.SCOMP@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
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Subject: 85/55 surprises
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 21:25:15 EDT
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From: Boebert@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA

Somebody asked what about 1985 would surprise somebody from 1955, and
somebody else responded that it would be that the cold war was still on.
Well, I just arrived from 1955 (I walked) and the big surprise is that
it is still cold.  I was in the Ground Observor Corps then (we filled
the gaps in the Air Defense Command radar net, which was more gaps than
net) and the question wasn't whether there was going to be a nuclear
war, it was when.  I for one was utterly astonished to see 1984 roll by.
Incidentally, there was a now-forgotton Phillip Wylie novel about a
mid-1950's nuclear exchange between the US and the USSR -- anybody
remember the name?