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| Deleted User | Oct 24 2012, 12:57 PM Post #1 |
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I just watched a documentary on this. Incredible, we have no idea how close we came to nuclear Armageddon and that one man prevented it. Link |
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| tomdrobin | Oct 24 2012, 01:05 PM Post #2 |
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Reading the article they talk about a nuclear torpedo. When I think of torpedo, I think of something traveling horizontally under water, not launching vertically to hit a target on land. Did the documentary tell what the target was to be? |
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| Brewster | Oct 24 2012, 01:08 PM Post #3 |
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The article makes it sound like it would have hit the American fleet. |
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| tomdrobin | Oct 24 2012, 01:11 PM Post #4 |
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Nucking a few ships sounds like overkill. I believe it said he died of radiation sickness. I wonder if it was from exposure in the sub? Edited by tomdrobin, Oct 24 2012, 01:12 PM.
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| Deleted User | Oct 24 2012, 02:41 PM Post #5 |
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Yes it was the fleet, if they used nukes against the fleet, the US was ready to launch against Russia itself, which would have led to you know what. |
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| Banandangees | Oct 24 2012, 07:26 PM Post #6 |
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I watched the documentary on our local Public Broadcasting Station last night. A real eye opener. I knew the Cold War sentiments were quite tense during that crisis, but never realized until later how close we really came to nuclear war. There were other times where things heated up between the USSR and the US between 1945 and the 1980s but none quite as close as this or as "nuclear." It brought back memories of 1956 when I was 19 and serving with the 8th Infantry Division Field Artillery in Germany. I was working the early morning shift on the Divarty CW radio net when a cryptic coded priority message came in from Divarty Head Quarters. The message announced an "unannounced war problem." Usually "war problem" drills were known in advance by Division Artillery commanders (often with knowledge of them being filtered down through the ranks). This one wasn't. Our whole battalion and, as it turned out, many others, were dispatched to the Grafenwoehr/Vilseck area on the Czechoslovakian border. We didn't realize it at the time but the Budapest Revolt had begun. What was Eisenhower going to do? |
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