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U-2 reconnaissance flights and B-52 nuclear deterrence missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis

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On Oct. 14 1962, a U-2 spyplane took a reconnaissance flight over Western Cuba which set the world on a road that took it close to nuclear Armageddon. The whole saga began some two years earlier, when Cuba establishes diplomatic relations with the USSR after the latter recognized Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government, which had seized [...]

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