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kleinbl00  ·  2887 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TIH: May 1, 1960- A U2 Spyplane is shot down over the USSR.

The US take on the Cuban Missile Crisis is... propagandist, to be sure. A lot of that is because the whole Jupiter missile battery thing was secret, and part of Kennedy's agreement was that not even Khruschev would talk about it. Kinda how we did remove all of our troops from Saudi Arabia after 9/11, the one thing Osama bin Laden had been whingeing about since 1991. I'd be curious how they teach it in Russia. ThatFanficGuy?

Everyone's inner 13-year-old has a thing for the B-70. It's a brilliant vision of the ascendancy of the Strategic Air Command, a suit of shining armor to knight into the stratosphere. Unfortunately, like most bombastic visions of go-fast, it was out of sync with the realities of warfare from shortly before its first flight. That said, our bucketlists have commonalities. ;-)