This week I watched a documentary called '1983 - The Brink of Apocalypse'.
This was an era of heightened tension in the Cold War, where it was probably at its highest state since the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960's.
A NATO war game was being interpreted by the Soviets as the start of a nuclear strike by the US against them.
Fortunately history shows that common sense prevailed as we are still here, yet at the time we were oblivious to how close we came to a nuclear holocaust.
This was also the year after the Falklands War, the miners strike was looming and tensions were high in the Middle East between Iran and Iraq. History now shows that the world was a very unstable place.
Conversely, we were entering an era where we hit a rich vein of music, feel good movies, cool cars and in general when looking back a very happy era, completely at odds to the supposed instability with the world at large.
After this 1983 incident the Americans and Russians moved closer and started to talk to each other. This eventually resulted in the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. At the time I remember watching thinking what a historic event, how the world was changing for the better.
We then entered the 1990's, music started to deteriorate, cars became more advanced but boring and tensions erupted in the Gulf resulting in the Gulf War. Suddenly the world seemed very unstable, attacks on US Ships and an attack on the World Trade Centre. The new millenium gave everyone hope that we would be entering a new more positive era. We had hardly entered the new decade when the World Tarde Centre was attacked in the worst ever peace time atrocity.
I often look at YouTube and when playing 80's music, everyone comments that they want to return to this spectacular decade. It wasn't perfect, far from it. It was a time of distinctive cars, every manufacturers looked different, music was arguably the best ever and whilst a secret cold war was being carried out by spy's, as a member of the public you knew who the enemy was.
This was an era of heightened tension in the Cold War, where it was probably at its highest state since the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960's.
A NATO war game was being interpreted by the Soviets as the start of a nuclear strike by the US against them.
Fortunately history shows that common sense prevailed as we are still here, yet at the time we were oblivious to how close we came to a nuclear holocaust.
This was also the year after the Falklands War, the miners strike was looming and tensions were high in the Middle East between Iran and Iraq. History now shows that the world was a very unstable place.
Conversely, we were entering an era where we hit a rich vein of music, feel good movies, cool cars and in general when looking back a very happy era, completely at odds to the supposed instability with the world at large.
After this 1983 incident the Americans and Russians moved closer and started to talk to each other. This eventually resulted in the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. At the time I remember watching thinking what a historic event, how the world was changing for the better.
We then entered the 1990's, music started to deteriorate, cars became more advanced but boring and tensions erupted in the Gulf resulting in the Gulf War. Suddenly the world seemed very unstable, attacks on US Ships and an attack on the World Trade Centre. The new millenium gave everyone hope that we would be entering a new more positive era. We had hardly entered the new decade when the World Tarde Centre was attacked in the worst ever peace time atrocity.
I often look at YouTube and when playing 80's music, everyone comments that they want to return to this spectacular decade. It wasn't perfect, far from it. It was a time of distinctive cars, every manufacturers looked different, music was arguably the best ever and whilst a secret cold war was being carried out by spy's, as a member of the public you knew who the enemy was.