RE: The Cuban Missile Crisis
August 14, 2014 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2014 at 10:02 pm by vorlon13.)
We (the US) considered the missiles obsolete as the Soviets could take them out in less time than it took to launch them. The Soviets, on the other hand, if given a 15 minutes 'heads up' they are going to be launched could not have stuck in time (back then) to have destroyed them on the ground just prior to launch.
It depends on who is doing the 'first strike' as to just how dangerous those missiles actually were. Our brass would hate to wake up some morning and have those missiles burning on the ground. The Soviet brass probably had a headache every night as to whether or not a 'Brig General Jack Ripper' somewhere in the chain of command (right up to the oval office) might have decided the time was ripe.
It depends on who is doing the 'first strike' as to just how dangerous those missiles actually were. Our brass would hate to wake up some morning and have those missiles burning on the ground. The Soviet brass probably had a headache every night as to whether or not a 'Brig General Jack Ripper' somewhere in the chain of command (right up to the oval office) might have decided the time was ripe.
