millennial wrote: you say the

[The-Shoveler]

[quote=millennial] you say the world almost ended several times in the 50’s and 60’s, but at least the weapons were accounted for.[/quote]

It is fairly well documented the few times we were minutes from launch (Cuba comes to mind as the most well documented case) October 14, 1962 – October 28, 1962

Not all were accounted for as well (I am sure Russia has a lot of stories).

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5664390/5-times-we-almost-nuked-ourselves-by-accident

http://beta.hotair.com/archives/2013/09/21/did-we-almost-nuke-ourselves-in-1961/

That said My parents were fairly good to me as well, but generally we were on our own (free range kids) and had to stick up for ourselves.