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

October 30, 2012 Richard Clements

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 […]

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