Kirk M on November 19th, 2007

Back on November 3rd I put up a small post about abandoned Cold War missile silos referencing an original article at WebUrbanist. And after the post had been published, Laurie and I began wondering if there were any of these early Cold War Missile silos had ever planted here in Vermont or anywhere within [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on November 14th, 2007

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...] Read more »

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Warning—Heavy sarcasm ahead So here you go folks. What we’ve all been waiting for. The phrase; Cold War II, if not the actual turning of the tide (yet), has now been offered up to the public nice and solid. By an article in the New York Times no less.
The problem is, Cold War II could [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on October 3rd, 2006

Nuclear weapons raise their ugly heads again:
As an ex-cold war submariner who, along with his fellow “bubbleheads” (on both sides by the way), spent an average of 300 days out of the year poking holes through ocean depths (along with generally ruining their health) doing their absolute best at trying to keep the world from [...] Read more »

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