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 Posted: April-05-2011 at 11:45am |
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My son has written two papers on the Cuban missile crisis and I have read a few of the books he has used. Scary times. We were really "this close" to the big one. Only time in US history we have been on DEFCON 2. 9/11 we were on DEFCON 3 (not as high). Because nuclear threat was so real during that time of the cold war, people just kind of accepted that it could really happen. You are right Bruce, JFK really played that smart. The cuban missiles reached a stage of readiness as the crisis (just 13 days) went on and they shot down one of our pilots in the height of it. Could have gotten ugly.
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Posted: April-06-2011 at 10:18am |
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im sure that fateful day in Texas was the end result, at the end of the day we are still the only country to use nukes
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