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 [...]
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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 | no comment
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The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
Posted by Matt in May 31st, 2008 | no comment
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Chavez, 53, the country’s first dark-skinned leader, has used Venezuela’s immense oil wealth, says Jones, to improve life for millions of impoverished shantytown residents through health and education programmes such as no other leader ever attempted. For Washington, though, the “Bolivarian revolution” (named after Simon Bolivar, the leader of the independence struggle against Spain) is [...]
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