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"Simon Robbins" writes:

"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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Nope, the Soviet missiles were withdrawn as the US demanded.

I don't wish to appear to join the loony "good old days of the Reich" side
of this discussion, but the Cuban missile crisis was such a clear-cut US
victory, since Kennedy negotiated the removal of the Russian missiles by
offering to remove his own from Turkey.

That seems to be the latest buzz, but its interesting to note that the
Jupiters in Turkey had been slated in 1961 to be retired in 1963-64, a year
before the missile Crisis.
Quite frankly, the Jupiters weren't good for much, anyway. (Despite
being designed by Wehrner von Braun's team at Redstone Arsenal). The
supposed mobility was worthless, they couldn't be based in a hardened
structure like a coffin or silo, and their reaction time (fuelling &
arming) was so long that they were vulnerable to airplanes from
Bulgaria.

Check out "The Other Missiles of October" if you get the chance.

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Pete Stickney
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