RE: The Cuban Missile Crisis
August 15, 2014 at 10:53 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2014 at 11:01 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 14, 2014 at 5:25 pm)Diablo Wrote: What was the real case here? Before the crisis the US had missiles in Turkey and afterwards they didn't. The Soviets gained an advantage, at least as they saw it, while the US gained a PR advantage.
With the missiles we had coming online, such as the Polaris, Titan, and Atlas, Jupiter missiles became a sacrificial pawn while the US in fact increased its ability to target the USSR. It was good PR for the people of Turkey, and a sound military decision by the Kennedy Administration.
From the Soviet point of view, it allowed them to claim a status of equality with America that was previously insupportable. It also scared the crap out of them, and fueled another round of spending on their part in ordere to make that putative equality actual.
eta: Also, Chuck's points about the conventional/nuclear balance are spot-on.
(August 14, 2014 at 10:33 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I always think it's funny when people use Atheism forums to find out stuff like this. Have you ever heard of https://www.google.com/ ?
I like the fact that a website can have a broad array of members who have a mass of knowledge about a broad array of matters, and that furthermore, because I have interacted with them before, I can do at least a rough assessment of their credibility.
Additionally, because there's often disagreement even amongst authorities, coming to a site that doesn't address the topic du jour from an authoritative standpoint means one is more likely to get a diversity of views, and leads, in order to guide one's research.
This site would be pretty boring if the only thing we talked about is "God doesn't exist."
