Humanity: Getting hauntingly close to nuclear war for almost a century.
One of the things humanity is great at is constantly teetering at the brink of disaster. And when we narrowly avoid catastrophe, there's no real way of knowing what life would've been like if we hadn't.But there's at least one creepy exception to this rule: speeches that leaders and their aides prepared in case the worst-case scenario became a reality.
" was a little over a page long and included instructions that Nixon ought to"telephone each of the widows-to-be" before addressing the public.The instructions specified that after Nixon called the astronauts' wives and delivered the speech, NASA would end communication with the doomed men.
These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding. They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.
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