Missiles Of October

On Wed 9 Jan 2008 wrote:
Reading Bill Bryson's latest book where, among other things, he
remembers his childhood experience of the Cuban Missile Crisis, I got
to thinking of my own memories of that episode. I was nine at the
time, and living in the North of England.

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In October of '62, I'd just turned 5, and was living in Bainbridge
Ohio, USA. I have no conscious recollection about the Cuban missile
crisis from that time, though I do remember watching cartoons, and
Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, etc. LOL! Where ignorance is bliss...

The general opinion then was that if a nuclear war broke out, Britain
would be hit pretty heavily, and so I vividly remember wandering
around the streets one Friday afternoon (October 26th?) thinking that
we probably had only a few hours to live - it was horrible. The one
thought that was uppermost in mu mind was 'what will the first sign
be?' That thought has stayed with me ever since.
If a nuclear strike happened a few miles away, I suppose the first
sign would be the sky lighting up in an almighty flash. But if you
just happened to be on the missiles' flight-path, would you get to see
them before they exploded, and thus have a chance to say to yourself
"well, this is it"? And it you saw them, what would they probably look
like?
I heard once that ICBM's come in at 18,000mph, so at that speed you'd
probably never see them till they hit, but then, I know next to
nothing about this subject.
I'd be very interested to hear anyone's comments on this.

Here're a couple links on the subject:
http://www.altavista.com/web/results...=&lh=&nbq= 50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICBM

Thus, if a nuclear missile were launched toward a populated region
in today's world, it's possible we might hear about it on the news
before those in the target region hear the incoming missile itself.
For them within the immediate kill radius, a mundane bright light:
then immediately (if not sooner) the Light at the end of the Dark
tunnel. As for who goes directly into the Light, vs. who does not,
that's a matter for each departed soul to decide. Those who won't
enter the Light get trapped in Limbo, oftentimes for centuries.
Any way you look at it, whether sinners succumb quickly or slowly
to the effects of thermonuclear detonation, radiation, etc., that
is the least of their problems. Worse torments await them in Hell.

Furthermore, thinking as one apocalyptic millenarianist Christian,
I wouldn't worry yourself too much about nuclear war, as biblical
and other prophecies are--by definition of prophecy--in concerted
agreement, wholly of one consensus, that vastly greater default of
mortal humans is made by biological weapons, than by some limited
nuclear strikes (the most significant of which is upon WOB world
headquarters). And at the apex of the great tribulation, incoming
about seven stadia along its major axis wipes out coastal regions
worldwide. But then, that's merely my deduction of the aforesaid.

"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
--'It's a Jungle out There', Randy Newman

Armageddon Cometh,
Daniel Joseph Min
http://www.angelfire.com/moon2/danieljosephmin/

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