>>116931600The difference being that the babyboomers in their youth were told that enough of them would survive and then rebuild civilization and fight the evil [other ideology that is the spawn of satan]. Because there weren't that many nukes around yet, and intercontinental missiles.
Wars would still be fought mostly with tanks and soldiers and airplanes shooting at each another and stuff. Nukes would be just a slightly bigger kaboomey things used in actual wars.
Whereas gen x was told that literally everything they do will be for naught, because the damages caused by the many thousands of nukular missiles on both sides will cause irreparable damage to the entire planet, that the survivors won't be able to rebuild civilization anymore, as anything will be too radioactive to then survive. Nukes are the end of the world.
Basically, it's a matter of technology making wars even more frightening.