[RayChuang88]

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.

[gusopol3]

thanks; am I incorrect in remembering that Krushchev considered it a coup to get the US missiles out of Turkey, however?