[sci.military] Nuclear alerts and the media.

GA.CJJ@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Clifford Johnson) (12/01/89)

From:      "Clifford Johnson" <GA.CJJ@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
This week, the media thought it was news that the USSR put its
strategic nuclear forces on 10-minute alert during the 1968
Czekoslovakia business.  It is ironic that this is deemed a
newsworthy case of extreme previous tensions and risk, when it is
virtually ignored in the media that strategic nuclear missile
crews are now on perpetual 3-minute launch alert.

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