Friday, July 25, 2008

• CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS REVISITED?
  
  OLBERMANN REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD WAS ON THE BRINK OF CATASTROPHIC WAR WITH RUSSIA.  THIS IS THE CLOSEST THE WORLD HAS EVER COME TO HAVING A NUCLEAR WAR. 
  

   

  The Most Dangerous Two Weeks in History...

  

  In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union dispatched a fleet of commercial cargo ships filled with nuclear missiles, launchers and anti-aircraft guns--all under false manifests--across the Atlantic Ocean to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Forty thousand Soviet soldiers and technicians began clandestinely erecting an extensive array of armed missile sites, and aiming their nuclear-tipped medium range ballistic missiles at the United States. Nikita Khruschev and his key military advisors thought that the missiles would remain unnoticed until November, and then he planned to suddenly reveal them to the United States as a fait accompli. They were nearly successful. But in mid-October, with the Soviet tankers still enroute, American U-2 spy planes and CIA photo analysts detected several Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBMs) on Cuban soil, their sites still under construction. In the weeks that followed, both nations stood at the brink of nuclear holocaust.  Never before in history has the world come closer to a general nuclear war.  On this 46th Anniversary of those events, understanding the Cuban Missile Crisis today is arguably more important than it has ever been.

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