Where our tax goes :(

[BA to the Stars]

And that loaded polystyrene stuff is proving problematic... there's nothing worse than a bomb that doesn't go pop.

Polystyrene stuff eh - reminds of the rocks on this planet the Captain and I beamed down to, there was this giant alien lizard lifeform and, well I suppose you know the rest

[bogeyman]

The cold war started because post WW2 Stalin decided it was a good idea to force his evil empire upon Asia and Europe, ie the SU started rolling out it's communist states years before it tested it's nukes.

I will not tolerate this invented version of history.

Gulag for you, Lucy

[Lucy]

I will not tolerate this invented version of history.

Gulag for you, Lucy

Not unlike Norfolk.

[Marina]

FFS the cold war ended because of nuclear weapons, go and learn some history. ..

Nukes were no doubt a major factor, or at least the expense of maintaining the nuclear arsenal and conventional forces.

But I was watching an interesting Discovery Channel program on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster last night, which claimed that the need for the Russians to come clean was an important catalyst for glasnost and the ending of the Cold War, along with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. So even a radioactive cloud has a silver lining

[BA to the Stars]

<cough>

You were stuck on the Enterprise, old chap... it was the War Criminal who was beamed down with me...

Ummm - I wondered who would be the first to spot my deliberate mistake

BATTS in Captain Mainwaring mode

[threaded]

FFS the cold war ended because of nuclear weapons, go and learn some history.

No, it was because of the invention of the fax machine.

HTH

[Lucy]

No, it was because of the invention of the fax machine.

HTH

That's an interesting thought.