- Michael Noda [GreatNorthern, PHL πΊπΈ] Back in the Bad Old Days of the 1960s and 1970s, the United States asserted that all norms and treaties about nuclear non-proliferation were dead letters if there was ever a general war in Europe. If the Soviets came through the Fulda Gap, we were handing dozens of nukes each to about ten different countries.