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A Cuban Missile Crisis For Today

By on December 20, 2012 in Aegis Ashore, Electromagnetic Pulse, EMP Threat, Gulf of Mexico Missile Defense, Henry F. Cooper, Today's Cuban Missile Crisis

On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced the Soviets were deploying nuclear weapons in Cuba. In those 13 days of crisis, we were closer to the brink of nuclear holocaust than we then realized. Now we could face a new crisis from the south—from ballistic missiles launched from ships in the Gulf of Mexico or Venezuela.

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