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Article: Periscope.(revelation that Soviet submarines were armed with nuclear torpedoes during the Cuban Missile Crisis)(this and other topics are discussed)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- May 14, 2001
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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Soviet Subs Were Armed With Nukes
When the movie "Thirteen Days," about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, was screened in Moscow last month for a group of senior Soviet participants in the chilling cold-war standoff, the Americans in attendance learned the crisis was even more dangerous than they knew. In a question-and-answer session, retired Soviet admiral Vitaly Agafonov, commander of a brigade of Soviet submarines sent toward Cuba, shocked former Defense secretary Robert McNamara and other former U.S. officials by revealing: "We had 22 torpedoes on each submarine, and we had one nuclear torpedo per submarine." Although documents first ...