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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

Posted by Matt in June 6th, 2008

The nuclear strike codes were kept inside a black vinyl briefcase known as “the Football.” The Football enabled the President to order the obliteration of thousands of targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe. Within seconds of the authentication of a presidential order, missiles would lift off from silos on the plains of Montana and North Dakota; B-52 bombers heading toward Russia would fly past their failsafe points to their targets; Polaris submarines in the Arctic Ocean would unleash their nuclear warheads.

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