What are your scariest memories of the Cold War?

While the Second World War was still very fresh in my parents' mind, my first exposure to war was the Korean War that I followed in the news. My mother lost a cousin there. We attended his funeral. As an aviator, a flight of fighters performed the missing man formation over his gravesite. That will forever stick in my memory. read more

Best Answer: I was born during the Cold War and was a military 'brat' until my parents divorced when I was around 10. So in the late 50's and early 60's, some of my earliest memories were involved to a point with the Cold War. read more

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Cuban missile crisis. In hindsight we came closer to a nuclear exchange than was understood at the time. While we lived in fear and suspicion of the Soviets they were absolutely and totally paranoid about us. read more

I'm interested in both Russia and the US, maybe a bit more about Russia. read more