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The ten was the best numerical rating for my decision which was approved. And then there was the question of the power of change and should one use it, if one indeed had it ? On the other hand, what right have I ? Why me? What for ? My answer was, and I can remember a moment, that the idiots that had the current instruments of power were such monsters, that counter-power should be employed as one's responsibility. One had only to look at what they had done in Europe the last century and so on, and what they were now doing in Vietnam. And I had nuclear missiles pointed at me.
I can remember thinking the Russians would hit the Oakland/Alameda military facilities. The nuclear blast would be seen from my house. I considered whether I would be a goner. The answer was obviously yes. But one always tries to figure out options of possible survival. But my feeling at the time was I would just rather go out in the first flash, than have to live in the aftermath of such a catastrophe. This nuclear stuff was real power.
SusieQ, Marko, some others and I attended a lecture, at some point at the University of San Francisco. The lecturer, a guy who with his wife, had moved to Alaska to survive the coming nuclear war. They had lived up there for ten or more years with kids. Of course no nuclear holocaust had occurred.
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