The Cuban Missile Crisis

[Rubycon]

I find the events and the resolution of this crisis quite fascinating. Anyone else familiar with it? Anyone here old enough to remember it as it happened? It was two years before my time. (I'm 42)

 

[dopcombo]

I learnt about it from a movie - "13 days" (I think that's what it's called)

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
I find the events and the resolution of this crisis quite fascinating. Anyone else familiar with it? Anyone here old enough to remember it as it happened? It was two years before my time. (I'm 42)

way before my time, though in the end it was a tradeoff between nukes in cuba and nukes in eastern europe

 

[Literati]

Yes I actually researched it in depth due to a guilt I had about being that totally unaware of some major American events.

Considering I grew up in North America, I figured I'd might want to know something about it. It definately is an interesting subject and contains quite a bit of information that helps the newer North American generations gain some perspective on previous, and current international opinions of our country.

And in the same breath I'd like to mention everytime I see Cuban Missle Crisis, I think Cuban Nipple Crisis, and laugh, everytime and no less hardy than the last time.

 

[everman]

Things got a little hairy, nearly nuked ourselves into oblivion.

 

[SVT Cobra]

What would you like to know?

 

[Ronstang]

If you are interested there is a show on the Cuban Missle Crisis on DTIMES, which I assume is DiscoveryTimes??, in about 10 minutes. Will probably answer all your questions. I was still in the womb during the whole thing.

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: everman
Things got a little hairy, nearly nuked ourselves into oblivion.

That wasn't the half of it. The Russians were just about to do it, twice. Literally finger-on-button.

 

[confused1234]

i got a cuban missiles crisis...IN MY PANTS!!!!!!lOLZ!!1!!1!!

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
What would you like to know?

Real life experience - anything from bomb drills, houses with fallout shelters, special prayers on Thanksgiving dinner in '62, etc.

Originally posted by: Ronstang
If you are interested there is a show on the Cuban Missle Crisis on DTIMES, which I assume is DiscoveryTimes??, in about 10 minutes. Will probably answer all your questions. I was still in the womb during the whole thing.

No real tv here to speak of. Is there a yahoo playlist (stream) of the broadcast possibly?

 

[Blazin Trav]

I take it you don't study history much? Yep it is very interesting.

I'm just glad the missles weren't actually launched.

 

[confused1234]

my cuban missile was launched and landed right on target





ya ill stop this now

 

[BoomerD]

Sorry you guys...those were ICBM's, not little short range missles...:evil:

I was about 9 when that happened. MY dad (step-dad) was in the USAF, and was on constant alert during that time. Rarely saw him. It was a BIG deal everywhere. Probably the closest we've ever come to playing "Global Thermonuclear War" on a real scale. Foirtunately, Kennedy had a bigger set than Kruschev and Castro did, and they backed down...

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav
I take it you don't study history much? Yep it is very interesting.

I'm just glad the missles weren't actually launched.

Well considering I'm not a U.S. citizen I know more about it than most do.

If missiles were launched both ways, kind of makes you wonder where things would be today. :Q

 

[woodie1]

I was a GI at the time. All the armed forces were put on alert. Since we didn't have pagers or cell phones you had to stay in touch if you left the base. I was just a teen at the time and really had no idea how bad the situation was. I doubt I could tell you anything that the TV/movies haven't covered.

 

[baoytl]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Foirtunately, Kennedy had a bigger set than Kruschev and Castro did, and they backed down...

Actually, didn't Kennedy secretly agree to remove our nukes from Turkey or somewhere. So it was more of a compromise than clear cut win.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Sorry you guys...those were ICBM's, not little short range missles...:evil:

I was about 9 when that happened. MY dad (step-dad) was in the USAF, and was on constant alert during that time. Rarely saw him. It was a BIG deal everywhere. Probably the closest we've ever come to playing "Global Thermonuclear War" on a real scale. Foirtunately, Kennedy had a bigger set than Kruschev and Castro did, and they backed down...

I'm pretty sure that if kennedy didn't remove the nukes in europe, we all wouldn't be here. It was more of a quid pro quo rather than a matter of balls.

 

[eits]

whoa, whoa, whoa.... hold the phone.....


........ you're 42?

 

[Corporate Thug]

i studied it in great depth in collge.

Kennedy FTW!

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: eits
whoa, whoa, whoa.... hold the phone.....


........ you're 42?

Yes - what does that have to do with the price of tritium in Charleston?

 

[her209]

http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/mcnamara.htm

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: baoytl

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Foirtunately, Kennedy had a bigger set than Kruschev and Castro did, and they backed down...

Actually, didn't Kennedy secretly agree to remove our nukes from Turkey or somewhere. So it was more of a compromise than clear cut win.

Well, compromise...maybe. Depends on whose version of it you believe.Kennedy staffers claim that
1) the Jupiter missles in Turkey were out-dated and scheduled to be removed anyway
2) There was no "official promise" or deal,...just a private "assurance" (not that it sounds much different to me)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: everman
Things got a little hairy, nearly nuked ourselves into oblivion.

We had nukes off of Russia's border forever... Russia was just evening the odds. Realistically Cuba having nukes was no more dangerous than the UK having nukes.

Russia getting all pissed off was the real threat Cuba having the missiles just made it easier to threaten us (or launch, which almost happened)

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Yes, fingers were on the buttons. Just prior to this crisis we initiated a total embargo
of Cuba. The day before the embargo Kennedy sent his press secretary, Pierre Salinger,
out to buy all the Cuban cee-gars for himself So ol' JFK was kicked back sucking on a
Cuban while this was all going down. Cool huh!



...Galvanized

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
Yes, fingers were on the buttons. Just prior to this crisis we initiated a total embargo
of Cuba. The day before the embargo Kennedy sent his press secretary, Pierre Salinger,
out to buy all the Cuban cee-gars for himself So ol' JFK was kicked back sucking on a
Cuban while this was all going down. Cool huh!



...Galvanized

Presidents and their cigars. At least he smoked his. :laugh: