Are you old enough to remember the term "Arms Race"?

[Demovictory9]

The result of which was the US cajoling other countries to stop

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[moniss]

1. I was around just before it became general use. nt

[Demovictory9]

3. I think therevwill be a new arms race as countries react to Trumps craziness

[moniss]

4. I agree and I think Europe has been left with the only choice being to go

full bore on an emergency accelerated program that would resemble being on a war footing.

[Ping Tung]

2. I'm old enough to remember crawling under my desk when the teacher said "Duck and Cover!" and party lines.

I turned 81 last Sunday.

[KarenS]

5. me, too. I'm 75. n/t

[Ping Tung]

7. Do you remember Ron Cobb?

I think I first saw this when I was about 25.

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[KarenS]

12. I'm pretty sure I have,,,, It's sad really.

[moniss]

6. There's a great old movie

about party lines, not one of the more well known movies, it was more on the B movie level and was comedy oriented. It may not have had Party Line etc. in the title but the gist of the movie was that people kept getting things mixed up. I've searched for it now but all the references are to other films. As I recall nobody in the film was recognizable by name. The movie was actually very accurate to how the old phone system worked and how people would "listen in" etc.

[cloudbase]

8. Mineshaft gaps, too!

[Demovictory9]

9. Whats that?

[cloudbase]

10. It's a reference to a scene in Dr. Strangelove.

[yardwork]

11. Yes, and it was the Republicans pushing it.