Saturday, October 13, 2012

BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Cuban missile crisis beliefs endure after 50 years

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Cuban missile crisis beliefs endure after 50 years

thumbnail HAVANA (AP) - The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev dared to cross it. An American U-2 spy plane flying high over Cuba had snapped aerial photographs of Soviet ballistic missile sites that could launch nuclear warheads with little ...

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