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Originally Posted by aerohead
Nikita Krushchev pulled his missiles out of Cuba,and Kennedy secretly pulled US missiles out our NATO ally Turkey,from where Francis Gary Powers flew his U2 over the USSR on their 4th of July celebration.An act of war.
You might thank the Soviets for not pushing the button.
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The soviets didn't want to push that button.
At the time of the Cuban missile crisis they had less than 1,600 nuclear weapons in inventory, the US had more like 10,000. The Russians didn't have a reliable icbm delivery system, we did. Their bombers probably couldn't have made it over the main land, we didn't have to send bombers.
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