Deja View

Almost same shot as yesterday's, just a few yards away and up a bit. No double pots of gold at the bottom of these rainbows though, and certainly no pots of black gold a few miles further down the Forth today either.

Back in the 1980s I was, along with probably many others around this area, acutely aware of how, if Reagan and the Russian's kept going the way they were, the massive Grangemouth refinery complex would've been one of the first strike targets in any Cold War escalation. I studied many magazine and newspaper articles that showed circular diagrams of the devastation that would be caused if a Soviet nuclear missile exploded over the complex. They mostly confirmed we'd have been dust in a flash.

Today, the bomb dropped, and it wasn't the Soviets. It seems the normally neutral Swiss pressed the red button here, but the blast zone might turn out to be only slightly less devastating than any Russian nuclear warhead.

A sad day.