No but I have been living under the threat of such my whole life and that constant stress has deeply affected me as well as billions of others.

Yes, that's right.  'Threat'.  Does the fact that it is merely a 'threat' of nuclear armageddon rather than actual nuclear armageddon that somehow diminish the impact that 'threat' has had on billions?  No. 

Is someone supposed to be less disturbed by the fact that someone is merely pointing a gun at them, their family and friends and everyone they care about rather than actually firing it?

The impact is still real and I personally take offense as a human being that you are inclined to belittle that impact, impacts that no one takes responsibility for.

Oh. It still is lost on me, I've lost my sense of humor, I suppose.

you kids claiming to be worried about the threat of nuclear war! Pshaw! IN MY DAY we had the threat of nuclear war!  We had B-52s with nuclear-armed cruise missles in the Arctic ocean, refueled midair by tankers, holding station 2 hours from targets inside Russia!  We had 16 Ohio-class missle boats each with 24 ICBMs that could throw a nuke into China from the Atlantic Ocean!  We had Peacekeepers in hardened silos, and we had the MX on rail wagons!  We had Pershing II short-range nukes al through Western Europe! Our carriers had nuclear-capable fighter-bombers!

We were two hours from bombing Russia into a glass desert, and we had spy satellites watching the heat signature of Russia to give us a realtime alert of a rocket taking off for orbit, so we could have fired off our birds 10 minutes after Andropov! 

You don't know what fear is! We saw Commie conspiracy in everything! not like "Obama is a commie" cause he likes them! Back then he'd be a fellow traveler, and the real commies had radios in their toilet to call Moscow and get orders!  And we found some!

In 1984 Reagan was told that the Soviet Spetnatz would infiltrate America with saboteurs disguised as Olympic athletes, so he told them their atheletes to the LA Games would have a curfew and American security at all times! So the USSR sat out the Games!   Yuri Andropov ordered the KGB to find PROOF Reagan was going to do a first-strike, so Andropov could first-strike and blame us with evidence! This NATO strike was supposedly code-named "RYAN", so when "Hunt for Red October" came out about a CIA agent named JACK RYAN tearing up Russia's naval power, Andropov went ape! That's the kind of crap that went on!

IN MY DAD'S DAY they had to do atomic drills at school! Which were earthquake drills! But they called them atomic drills! So when they found 30 piles of ash in the rubble, they could ID them by the seating chart!  That's all they were good for!

This is real! You can tell by all the !!

Did I mention they shot the Pope for being too cool? They shot the Pope! He was too cool!

In my day we did these silly drills for a nuclear strike where we lay down with our head to the nuke blast, helmet in front, arms crossed before our eyes. So I asked "what about two nukes?" and was made to do 100 pushups.

While doing handstands... in nuclear winter weather!!! We know Chris, we know!