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September 26th, 1983: The day the world almost died
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| 29th December 2007
| Tony Rennel
Posted on 12/30/2007 3:59:57 AM PST by vertolet
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To: vertolet
All extremely plausible....
Thanks for a good read this morning!
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posted on
12/30/2007 5:22:58 AM PST
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: vertolet; Jackknife
GREAT read.
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....
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posted on
12/30/2007 5:23:24 AM PST
by
The Drowning Witch
(Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:)
To: vertolet
That the U. S. and the Soviet Union had been on the brink of world war in 1962, when John Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev went head-to-head over missiles in Cuba, is well known. My understanding is that the CIA knew how few functional missiles/nukes the Soviets really had, and that Kennedy knew the Sovets were bluffing, so the dramatic standoff was not as real as it is made out to be. Like threatening an all out fight to the death, knowing your opponent has two broken arms, and knowing that they know you know. To onlookers, it looks like something exciting might happen, but not really.
To: vertolet
Then Reagan, successor at the White House to Jimmy Carter, upped the ante in a provocative speech in which he denounced the Soviet Union as 'the Evil Empire'.
It's hard to estimate what a genius move this was on the part of Reagan, this labeling of the Soviet Union as the Evil Empire.
First of all, it was absolutely true. They were an empire, and they were evil.
But more important than that, with the fantastic success of the Star Wars movies (two to-date by that time, or was it three?) the concept "Evil Empire" was out there in the American mind in a big way and it was only a matter of time before the leftists snatched it up and applied it to America.
Reagan beat them to the punch and used the phrase properly before the leftists could mis-apply it to us.
Reagan was a genius. On many levels.
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posted on
12/30/2007 5:30:21 AM PST
by
samtheman
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: vertolet
Good read, even if it bent on blaming the US if we had gone to war.
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posted on
12/30/2007 5:42:31 AM PST
by
EBH
(Loose lips sink ships.)
To: ought-six
How right on target you are! I was serving at the Comm Center in Tehran then. The teletypes were going nuts and everyone was called in on alert and prepared for issuance of weapons which we were not supposed to have available to us.
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posted on
12/30/2007 5:51:34 AM PST
by
mazda77
To: vertolet
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock
Is that a Timex or Casio?
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posted on
12/30/2007 5:53:59 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
To: vertolet
“successor at the White House to Jimmy Carter, upped the ante in a provocative speech in which he denounced the Soviet Union as ‘the Evil Empire’.”
The day his nads dropped.
To: vertolet
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posted on
12/30/2007 5:57:03 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: vertolet
“how about a nice game of chess?”
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posted on
12/30/2007 5:58:54 AM PST
by
kjam22
(see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
To: kittymyrib
unflagging attempts to ruin their time in office
I for one am sick and tired of the MSM. They're like a whiny brat that never gets punished.
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posted on
12/30/2007 6:00:01 AM PST
by
visualops
(artlife.us)
To: AmericaUnited
isn’t the historical record established that JFK backed down and pulled strategic assets out of Turkey? I think they were supposed to be somewhat obsolescent missiles, but the Soviets were glad to be rid of them.
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posted on
12/30/2007 6:02:56 AM PST
by
gusopol3
To: vertolet
Thanks. Great read. Just imagine what the world will be like if “My Mood, I’m in a jihad” ever gets his hands on nukes.
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posted on
12/30/2007 6:06:13 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(I've been too busy for FR this weekend, because I did the things I refuse to let the invaders do.)
To: vertolet
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posted on
12/30/2007 6:06:13 AM PST
by
ditto h
To: vertolet
Thanks for posting the article and God only knows how many close calls existed during the Cold War.
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posted on
12/30/2007 7:06:31 AM PST
by
xc1427
(It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
To: gusopol3
JFK could afford to dismantle the Jupiter missiles armed with the W49 1.45 MT warhead because by 1962, the US Navy's George Washington class submarines were in wide service, and unlike the Jupiter missiles (which required a complicated launch sequence due to the use of liquid oxygen as oxidizer fuel), the Polaris missiles were out at sea and could be fired with only a few minutes' notice.
To: vertolet
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posted on
12/30/2007 7:10:21 AM PST
by
Adder
(hialb)
To: vertolet
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posted on
12/30/2007 7:10:52 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: AmericaUnited
My understanding is that the CIA knew how few functional missiles/nukes the Soviets really had, and that Kennedy knew the Sovets were bluffing, so the dramatic standoff was not as real as it is made out to be.
Except that SOME of the missiles became operational during the crisis AND the Soviet general on the ground had orders to use his tactical nukes ( about which we did not know) in the event of an invasion, AND nut job Fidel was urging the Soviets to launch. It really was a close call.
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posted on
12/30/2007 7:16:10 AM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Some time back in the late 1960s a nuclear sub sank.Only a US satalite recorded it. Howard Hughs built a special ship (Glomar Challenger)to recover it. According to reports, the part of the sub with missles broke off and sank back into the sea.
This is some of the top secret info that was spilled by the Dems when it was revealed to them in the Watergate hearings.
Apologies if I am incorrect, but wasn't Howard Hughes ship the Glomar Explorer ? And wasn't the Soviet vessel K-129 recovery project called Project Jennifer and didn't it happen around the mid-1970's ?
Again, apologies if I am mistaken.
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posted on
12/30/2007 7:16:59 AM PST
by
pyx
(Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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