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Article: Race to a standoff ; How an American officer pushed to build weapons of mass destruction to keep peace with the USSR
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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One by one, the hidden extremities of the Cold War are coming to
light. We now know that the United States and the Soviet Union
stumbled much closer to nuclear war during the 1962 Cuban missile
crisis than American leaders understood at the time, because the
Soviets did in fact have operational land- and submarine-based
nuclear weapons in and around Cuba, which a US attack would have
triggered. In 1983 an annual NATO field exercise called Able Archer
similarly almost frightened the Soviets into launching a preemptive
first strike. A 1954 scheme to hit the USSR preventively with
everything in the US nuclear arsenal, killing tens of millions of
Soviet civilians, worked all the way up to ...
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