[Oshkalaboomboom]

This posting was actually inspired by an article I read in today's Yahoo News called Juanita Moody, the cryptographer who was key to avoiding a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, since I live in Spain, the link and article will come up in Spanish so you would need a translation program to read it. Very interesting part of history I didn't know much about.

[Gay State Conservative]

later

[Gay State Conservative]

I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was a kid but I wasn't *totally* clueless regarding things like nuclear weapons. I recall being very frightened for a couple of days.

[Fury]

Ping for later read.

[JonPreston]

Frighting times indeed. English translation

History of Juanita Moody

[PIF]

You do know that Smith’s rag makes stuff up, leaves out important details and is generally not a credible source for anything historical, but is good for starting a fire, wrapping fish, lining a birdcage?

[Hot Tabasco]

Fascinating article, thanks....

[USS Alaska]

My brother was on a destroyer based out of Gitmo and assigned to the battle group that "watched the reds coming and going into and out of Cuba.

He told me he thought that we were going to war, and for a short time, that his crew were part of the walking dead.

I was stationed in Germany and we were on alert and figured it was only a matter of time before a shooting war began.

The fear was that the red tanks would come across the Chec/Kraut border and we knew we were going to be the "holding force" i.e. cannon fodder.

The Sunday Masses were well attended during that period, the fear of immanent death brings out the latent religious beliefs in most people.

I'm sure us low life peons will never know how close we really came to the big bang, the secrets lie with JFK, his crew and his Russian counterparts.

[ealgeone]

An interesting read.

[sauropod]

Thank you for what you do.

[daniel1212]

A gifted and exceptional women, but if not for the gender it would not be a story in the SMITHSONIAN.

One of her Fort Meade colleagues told me that a gaggle of young staffers, nearly all of them men, could frequently be seen trailing Moody down the halls, scribbling notes while she spoke.

The dream of feminism

[GreyFriar]

A good article about Signals Intelligence and how it works.

ASA Vet, I recommend you sent it to your ASA/Intel ping list.

[PLMerite]

We didn’t overlap, but I heard her name a lot.

[Oatka]

I had a typesetting shop then, and wrote most of the “crisis” news off to the typical (even then) Media B/S. I started to get nervous though, when they started playing martial/patriotic tunes on the radio. They don’t do that unless war is imminent.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

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