Showing posts with label Cuban Missile Crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuban Missile Crisis. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Sunday, June 2, 2019
This photo almost started a nuclear war
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world has ever come to all-out nuclear war, and it all started with a photo. On October 15th, 1962, Dino Brugioni, a senior analyst at the newly-formed National Photographic Interpretation Center, identified missile trailers measuring approximately 65 feet in an aerial reconnaissance photo. Those trailers were a match for the Soviet SS-4, a medium-range ballistic missile with a range that would cover a huge amount of the United States, including Washington, DC.
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