Flying Saucers

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Again, The Bomb: a Life, by Gerard J. DeGroot, is not, overall, a very funny book, given the subject matter. But I found another funny passage:

A really cooperative enemy would time missiles to coincide with when the meal was done, the dishes tidied away* and the family gathered around the television watching Leave it to Beaver.

* An untidy kitchen could be lethal in a nuclear attack. With dishes lying around, people could get killed by flying saucers.