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notallthatrelevant t1_j6ejn46 wrote

Reply to comment by Groundbreaking_War52 in TIL that the USA once stored nuclear weapons in the Philippines. by Captainmanic

The wild part to me is that a the US missiles in question, the Jupiter series, were sort of dogshit and already outdated when the cuban missile crisis finally rolled around. They were stored above ground which made them easy targets, and they had a minimum response time of 15 minutes so they were pretty useless as retaliatory weapons. I mean at the end of the day it was all about projecting power, but still.

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Groundbreaking_War52 t1_j6ekroe wrote

Part of what made that era particularly scary. It was all about building more, bigger warheads while delivery systems were still far from the reliability and accuracy that one would expect.

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