Fog of War, Documentary

Scary, insightful, thought provoking. Well done documentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam.

The only disappoint was McNamara dodging questions on his responsibility in many of this situations.

I wasn't aware of how close I came to death as a kid in the early 60s.

MUST SEE for history, political and war buffs.

 

I saw it last week and it is a must see. McNamara is one smart dude. I never knew he once ran Ford Motor Company.

According to him we did come close to nuclear war. As he says "it wasn't a cold war, it was a hot war".

 

We were about 6 hours away from a full nuclear weapons exchange with the former Soviet Union on that fateful day in 1962.

Thankfully, cool heads and reason prevailed - on both sides.

Bob

 

This documentary also has the famous Johnson little girl picking flowers before a nuclear explosion TV ad from the 1964 election campaign.

 

For those of you interested in learning more about the Cuban Missile Crisis, including a number of now de-classified documents, I recommend this site:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

Bob

 

Thanks for the link. Most interesting!

 

This is hardly news. McNamara will have a major stammer going at the final judgment, I assure you.