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Re:The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two ‘islands’ by gozur88 on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:59PM (#15013386)
I doubt anything but nukes kept the US and Russia from going to war. Hell, aside from a few screwups, we almost went to war despite the nukes in 1963.
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Re:The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two ‘islands’ by dctoedt on Monday August 14, 2017 @09:14PM (#15014545)
It was actually 1962 (Cuban Missile Crisis) and 1983 (false alarm) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

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Re:The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two ‘islands’ by gozur88 on Monday August 14, 2017 @10:57PM (#15014997)
'62 then. We may have gone to war accidentally in '83, but in '62 it would have been on purpose, with full knowledge of what it entailed.
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