{"id":5573,"date":"2021-02-16T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2023-12-31T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T15:30:54","slug":"the-cold-war-my-part-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/the-cold-war-my-part-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cold War, my part in it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not really, but I was asked the other day. Here are some notes.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonid_Brezhnev\">Leonid Breznev<\/a>, he wasn&#8217;t Stalin and he and I share birthdays, as in day of the year. Nixon launched the planes twice?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/b52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/b52.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/b52.png 650w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/b52-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Much of my youth was pre submarine launched ICBMs, the primary means of nuclear weapons delivery was the air-forces. I both remember the testing the air raid sirens as I walked to school, and helping my Dad, who was a Civil Defence ARP warden on at least one exercise. I unrealistically played the role of a surviving victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often joked that our house would be the London target for Soviet nuclear weapons, you can see it surrounded by the US Air-force bases, RAF Northolt and HMS Northwood. I have also pinned the Kroeger&#8217;s house in Ruislip.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nwlondon-coldwar.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nwlondon-coldwar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nwlondon-coldwar.png 565w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nwlondon-coldwar-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now I suppose I should write the piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really, but I was asked the other day. Here are some notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[345,21],"tags":[1587,924,918],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-life-death","tag-cold-war","tag-history","tag-life-death"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/b52-defencenews.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10054,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/10054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}