Fidel Castro is dead at 90.

[ArnoldRimmer]

Soundwave said:

For the alarmists of today who think their generation is special, the 1960s was far more dangerous than today and the world came within probably minutes of nuclear war.

During all of the 1960s, the closest the so called "Doomsday Clock" came to midnight was 7 minutes.

It has been closer to midnight/doomsday than that ever since 2007.

Currently, we are at 3 minutes to midnight; the only time the doomsday clock has even been closer to midnight/doomsday than this was in the 1950s.

Soundwave said:

It's mainly due to President Kennedy IMO that a nuclear World War III was avoided.

If JFK had made a different set of decisions during those fateful days in 1962, none of us would be here typing on our computers, because the world would've be such a vastly different place that none of us probably would've been born.

And right now, we have pretty much the same situation, but reversed and much worse:

The US is bringing more and more nuclear bombs, rockets, troops etc. close to the russian borders, thereby consciously threatening russia and provocing WW3.

Compared to how the US is threatening russia right now, what the russians/cuba were doing in the 1960s was hardly worth mentioning.