Cuban Missile Crisis

[SaintHacker]

Just been reading a very good book about this (Britain on the Brink). I knew from history that it was a tense time but I had no idea just how close we had come to armageddon.
Anyone here remember it first hand? What was the feeling like at the time?

 

[CliveW]

Strange to think my childhood days are now classed as history. 😀

 

[Deleted member 18588]

I was a teenager at the time. My mates and I tried to play it cool but inside we were all pretty scared.

WW2 was still a relatively fresh memory and the idea of a global conflict seemed sadly too plausible. The nuclear threat made it more frightening.

 

[louise_a]

I was in junior school, although we didn't understand what was going on, I remember we were all saying goodbye to each other.

 

[Liverbirdie]

I asked my dad about this the other year, and he said that it was such a relief when the Russians turned back.

They thought that it would be WW3, and with the added factor of atomic bombs this time, thought it would be it for everyone this time.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

It doesn't seem that long ago that there was a (nuclear) warning siren in the council road depot just by Whitecraigs Golf Club. They used to test it every so often...spooky. I guess it was there until the mid-late 1970s.

 

[SaintHacker]

Southampton still has a nuclear bunker, just off the bottom of the M3. Not sure what purpose it serves these days, if any, but would be very interesting to go in have a look

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I was a young teen and talked it through with my father.
He said that the H Bomb would never be used again and that future wars/conflicts would still be fought with ground soldiers.
He was right so far.

 

[Maninblack4612]

I remember it, very tense. Good job George Bush Jnr. or Trump wasn't president at the time.

 

[Tashyboy]

We in Cuba a couple of years ago and had a few days in Havanna. Stunning city and deffo a place that should be on your bucket list before it gets ruined by McDonald's etc. Anyway went to the castle in Havanna and you pass a place that looks like a military museum which is rammed with planes and missiles etc from that era.
played a nice course in Varadero which was once owned by the DuPont family. One of my fave holes is on that course. Tre Lagos " Three lakes".

 

[Farmergeddon]

We were in the Dales climbing and had been out of touch for a few days, we wandered into East Witton to get some stuff and found half the village standing around looking at papers and talking amongst thenselves, They said that there was going to be a nuclear war!!! We dashed back to the farm where we were camping to borrow their phone and rang the shop next to where my mate lived and asked them to get his dad round, (yes thats what it was like in the old days) after talking to him we were made to feel a bit better but for a hour or so we were really bricking it..

 

[chrisd]

I do remember how tense it all was at the time

 

[Hobbit]

Way, way before my time. I remember my grandfather telling me about it.

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Way, way before my time. I remember my grandfather telling me about it.

It's Cuba we are talking about, not Mafeking!

 

[chrisd]

Way, way before my time. I remember my grandfather telling me about it.

You are your grandfather, you silly old fool!! :thup:

 

[rosecott]

At the time I was stationed at one of the Thor ICBM stations run jointly with the RAF and USAF. I can vouch for the fact that the Americans were on very high alert and extremely on edge.

 

[Hobbit]

Way, way before my time. I remember my grandfather telling me about it.

It's Cuba we are talking about, not Mafeking!

You are your grandfather, you silly old fool!! :thup:

Harsh, very harsh!

I'm only 38.............................................+VAT

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Harsh, very harsh!

I'm only 38.............................................+VAT

Blimey!!

That old VAT rate hasn't half gone up!

 

[Liverbirdie]

Blimey!!

That old VAT rate hasn't half gone up!

I think there is a fuel surcharge on that, as well.

 

[Liverbirdie]

At the time I was stationed at one of the Thor ICBM stations run jointly with the RAF and USAF. I can vouch for the fact that the Americans were on very high alert and extremely on edge.

Loose lips.....