Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Voice of America: 50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 10th 2012, 17:24

On October 14th, 1962, pictures taken by an American U-2 spy plane revealed the presence of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Graham Allison, an expert on the Cuban Missile Crisis, said there were two types of missiles.  "One were medium-range ballistic missiles, which could deliver a nuclear warhead at D.C. [District of Columbia]," he said.  "And there were intermediate-range nuclear missiles that could deliver warheads as far as Omaha, [Nebraska], where the Strategic Air Command ...

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