WI Cold War Went Nuclear?

[Caliga]

in Heinlein's case I can immediately think of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.

Not To Sail Beyond The Sunset?

Sorry, I've not read it.

[ulmont]

in Heinlein's case I can immediately think of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.

Not To Sail Beyond The Sunset?

Sorry, I've not read it.

I'll spoil it for you:  Lazarus Long goes back in time and fucks his mom.

[Caliga]

Ah, sounds like classic Heinlein. 

[lustindarkness]

If the cold war went nukular it would no longer be a cold war.

[DontSayBanana]

Ah, sounds like classic Heinlein. 

Really? Sounds like Niven to me. See: Destiny's Road. "No birdfucking allowed! It's the law!" I couldn't make that up if I tried.

[Neil]

Ah, sounds like classic Heinlein. 

Really? Sounds like Niven to me. See: Destiny's Road. "No birdfucking allowed! It's the law!" I couldn't make that up if I tried.

Niven's definitely one of those 60s-70s authors whose work is steeped in eroticism.

[Alatriste]

Asimov was fine on average.  A lot of his books were bland time killers, which doesn't make them bad.  Heinlein just got a little too preachy.  I think he is required reading by alot of the Baen Publishing stable.

What do you mean 'a little'? He got so preachy that the utter lack of subtlety is almost funny... That was already very much in evidence by 1959 (Starship Troopers) and only became stronger with time.

[Siege]

I probably wouldn't have been incinerated in a nuclear war in the 80s, my town wasn't important and far enough away from the blast zones.  I most likely would have been eaten by the mutant cannibal hordes as they shuffled out of the radioactive wastelands in search of flesh.

I don't know if I would have been nuclearly blown to pieces back in the 80's.
Is it Haifa close enough to Tel Aviv, or a target important enough in his own right, to deserve a russian nuke?

I don't think that even a thermonuclear "city-buster" would have reached all the way to Haifa, if Tel Aviv was the only target in Israel.

People tend to overstimate the effect of nukes.

[Zanza]

In the 80s, I lived like 20 km from the GDR border. I guess the cities I lived in would either have been nuked or conquered within the first hours of ground war.

[Razgovory]

I probably wouldn't have been incinerated in a nuclear war in the 80s, my town wasn't important and far enough away from the blast zones.  I most likely would have been eaten by the mutant cannibal hordes as they shuffled out of the radioactive wastelands in search of flesh.

I don't know if I would have been nuclearly blown to pieces back in the 80's.
Is it Haifa close enough to Tel Aviv, or a target important enough in his own right, to deserve a russian nuke?

I don't think that even a thermonuclear "city-buster" would have reached all the way to Haifa, if Tel Aviv was the only target in Israel.

People tend to overstimate the effect of nukes.

Since your country was not part of Nato there was no reason to attack it.

[Siege]

NATO sucks ass.

[Queequeg]

NATO sucks ass.

Odd opinion. 

[Siege]

NATO sucks ass.

Odd opinion. 

You are odd.

[Queequeg]

NATO sucks ass.

Odd opinion. 

You are odd.

And you're drunk as a Russian dockworker.  I thought it was odd because, as a soldier, you have to, you know, fight with/for NATO, and the alliance helped save our ass in the Cold War.

[Darth Wagtaros]

The RAND Corp. used to publish maps of blast zones and expected yields for various targets and the likelyhood of them being hit.  You could probably find them if you are curious about whether or not you'd have been vaporized.  If oudn one in a library book sale a year or so ago.  Boston would have been destroyed I'm sure, I'd have likely survived the initial exchange, but its anyone's guess about the ffallout and CHUDs.