Posted on 09/14/2017 11:22:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
I share his opinion.
Living in NYC, I didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of seeing it, but I remember it well. But we were being transparent while the Soviets did everything behind a curtain.(iron) We may never know how many failures they experienced. I guess in the short term, they won the Nazi rocket scientist grab bag competition...but we won the marathon.
Also, a LOT of that fear was generated by the RATS and JFK’s false claims of a “missile gap.”
Ya better read it again. It’s wasn’t an opinion, it was a question.
Ya better read it again. It’s wasn’t an opinion, it was a question.
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