william.maggos<p><a href="https://liberal.city/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> started the war like Castro started the <a href="https://liberal.city/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a> by letting the USSR put missiles near the US. They didn't. Leaders of weaker nations can say no but it's really hard when the most powerful countries in the world tell you to do something and can manipulate your politics to have you removed if you don't. Or sanction or invade you. The US and the EU knew fucking around there on Russia's border was going to piss off Putin. <a href="https://liberal.city/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> should say that. <a href="https://liberal.city/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Mi</span><span class="invisible">ssile_Crisis</span></a></p>
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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1708301/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1708301/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962 <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CaptainValentinSavitsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CaptainValentinSavitsky</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FidelCastro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FidelCastro</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/J" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>J</span></a>.RobertOppenheimer <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearArmsRace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearArmsRace</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearHolocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearHolocaust</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWar</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oppenheimer</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PresidentJohnF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentJohnF</span></a>.Kennedy <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RussianMissiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussianMissiles</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SovietUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SovietUnion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.S.</p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>The Trump Triumvirate of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a>, and <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RobertKennedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertKennedy</span></a>, is the biggest threat to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> since the Cuban Missile Crisis.<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> won last time. <br>Let's make sure <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> doesn't win THIS time.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kennedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kennedy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StopFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopFascism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StopMAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopMAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VoteBlue2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoteBlue2024</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harris</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Walz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Walz</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarrisWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarrisWalz</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harris2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harris2024</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarrisForPresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarrisForPresident</span></a></p>
Clemens Vasters' Pictures 📷<p>Vought F-8 <a href="https://photog.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/airandspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airandspace</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/aircraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aircraft</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/airplanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airplanes</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avgeek</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/aviationphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aviationphotography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/cubanmissilecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cubanmissilecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/f8crusader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>f8crusader</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/marinecorps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marinecorps</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/planes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planes</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/rf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rf8</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smithsonian</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/unitedstatesnavyreserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unitedstatesnavyreserve</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/vietnamwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vietnamwar</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/vought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vought</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/highlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highlight</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/jet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jet</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>navy</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/photoreconnaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photoreconnaissance</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/stevenfudvarhazycenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stevenfudvarhazycenter</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/supersonic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supersonic</span></a> (Flickr 08.07.2016) <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28203492092" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/</span><span class="invisible">28203492092</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 15, 1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four other Nobel laureates. Werner Heisenberg (shown pictured), of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, was 1 of the signers. A new Mainau Declarion was signed in 2015. This one calls for urgent action on the Climate Crisis.</p><p>Part of the original Mainau Declaration reads as follows:</p><p>We do not deny that perhaps peace is being preserved precisely by the fear of these weapons. Nevertheless, we think it is a delusion if governments believe that they can avoid war for a long time through the fear of these weapons. Fear and tension have often engendered wars. Similarly, it seems to us a delusion to believe that small conflicts could in the future always be decided by traditional weapons. In extreme danger no nation will deny itself the use of any weapon that scientific technology can produce. All nations must come to the decision to renounce force as a final resort. If they are not prepared to do this, they will cease to exist.</p><p>While both threats remain, the nuclear threat will destroy the planet, and life on it, much more suddenly. And the U.S. and Western European powers, including Israel, seem much more prepared to use them than any time in the past. Indeed, in part because of this increasing willingness to use nuclear weapons, willingness to escalate military conflicts that risk nuclear miscalculation, and the rapid proliferation of a new nuclear arms race between the U.S., Russia, and China, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (founded by Einstein and Oppenheimer in 1945) pushed the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever come to Armageddon (at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis it was at 2 min. before midnight). The first paragraph of their current status warning reads: </p><p>“Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.”<br><a href="https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock</span><span class="invisible">/current-time/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclearweapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearweapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bomb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nobel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nobel</span></a>#peace <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coldwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cubanmissilecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cubanmissilecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/armsrace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>armsrace</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/einstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>einstein</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppenheimer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Heisenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heisenberg</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/armageddon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>armageddon</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussianWarships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussianWarships</span></a> off <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a>? Let’s hope it’s not déjà vu all over again.<br>
The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> must urge <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> continue to honor the understanding that ended the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a>.
Is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> still abiding by the terms of the “understanding” that resolved the 1962 Cuban missile crisis? Recent reports of Russian <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/warships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warships</span></a> conducting exercises in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> raise serious concerns about Moscow’s intentions.
<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/26/russia-warships-cuba-missile-crisis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/opinions/20</span><span class="invisible">24/06/26/russia-warships-cuba-missile-crisis/</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nicholas_saunders" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nicholas_saunders</span></a></span></p><p>Are you likening zhe delivered of weapons to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> for its self-defense against the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> invaders to the attempted delivery of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> weapons by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SovjetUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SovjetUnion</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a>?</p><p> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@jeff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jeff</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astronomy.social/@2ndStar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>2ndStar</span></a></span></p>
Ricardo Harvin<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AutonomousAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AutonomousAI</span></a> would have killed us all at least twice in my lifetime: The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a> "two messages", and the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SovietUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SovietUnion</span></a> false <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nuclear</span></a> attack alarm.</p><p>These incidents required <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>human</span></a> cognition to resolve, not an <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>algorithm</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_</span><span class="invisible">Missile_Crisis</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/link" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>link</span></a>: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_S</span><span class="invisible">oviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident</span></a></p><p>From: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@ricardoharvin" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricardoharvin</span></a></span><br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/@ricardoharvin/111803983756024191" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.social/@ricardoharvin/11</span><span class="invisible">1803983756024191</span></a></p>
Bob Jamieson<p>Photo of the Day</p><p>A journalist’s first-hand account of the Cuban Missile Crisis…</p><p>Legendary journalist Marvin Kalb was Moscow Bureau Chief for the CBS Evening News during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.</p><p>He has written that, while many people in the world feared a global nuclear catastrophe, he did not; nor did many others who were in Moscow at the time. </p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-dba?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/look/p/p</span><span class="invisible">hoto-of-the-day-dba?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a></p>
Juho Mäntysalo<p>Quite interesting how people narrate their own history. </p><p>Particularly in this case, seeing as how in the past 40 years (as the Cuban Missile Crisis has gone from living memory) the events have turned more black-and-white. Present narration tends to forget the Bay of Pigs (and the US missiles in Turkey, and the situation in Cuba pre-revolution).</p><p>[Also: posting partly as a personal reference. Going to lose these if I just save locally.]</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JFK</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DCComics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DCComics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comics</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>27 October 1962, at the height of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a>, second-in-command Vasili Arkhipov of the Soviet <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/submarine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>submarine</span></a> B-59 refused to agree with his Captain's order to launch <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nucleartorpedo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nucleartorpedo</span></a> against US warships and setting off what might well have been a terminal superpower <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclearwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearwar</span></a>. <br>The US had been dropping depth charges near the submarine.<br>Learn about refusal to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justfolloworders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justfolloworders</span></a> in podcast episode 38 about mutinies. </p><p><a href="https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e38-mutiny-with-srsly-wrong/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">workingclasshistory.com/podcas</span><span class="invisible">t/e38-mutiny-with-srsly-wrong/</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1962, Soviet naval officer <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VasiliArkhipov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VasiliArkhipov</span></a> likely prevented a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NuclearWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWar</span></a> by vetoing the launch of a nuclear torpedo during the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a>. That US students aren't taught his name is sad, as it would humanize the conflict.</p><p><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/you-and-almost-everyone-you-know-owe-your-life-to-this-man" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationalgeographic.com/premium</span><span class="invisible">/article/you-and-almost-everyone-you-know-owe-your-life-to-this-man</span></a></p>
Neil Drysdale<p>The world has been on the edge of a nuclear precipice since the 1950s and 1960s, but as conflict threatens to escalate across the Middle East, this feels like the most dangerous time since the Cuban missile crisis. In the past, there were at least diplomats and pragmatists to keep the lid on the hawks, but where have they gone? <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ProtectAndSurvive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectAndSurvive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CND" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CND</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/4003572/russia-nuclear-war-in-the-1980s/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-</span><span class="invisible">times/4003572/russia-nuclear-war-in-the-1980s/</span></a></p>
𝕎𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕞<p>Said the night wind to the little lamb:<br>Do you see what I see?<br>Way up in the sky, little lamb<br>Do you see what I see?<br>A star, a star, dancing in the night<br>With a tail as big as a kite<br>Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy:<br>Do you hear what I hear?<br>Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy<br>Do you hear what I hear?<br>A song, a song, high above the trees<br>With a voice as big as the sea<br>Noël Regney<br>Gloria Shayne<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a><br>16 Oct 1962<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/popmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>popmusic</span></a></p>
Speckled Band<p>A James Bond factoid courtesy of Max Hastings in Abyss, his book about the Cuban Missile Crisis <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/bond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bond</span></a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/jamesbond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbond</span></a> #007 <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/trivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trivia</span></a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/seanconnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seanconnery</span></a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/jfk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jfk</span></a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/cubanmissilecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cubanmissilecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Kenneth<p>AFAIK the last time a president made broadband speech on an actually executive situation was during the <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a> by <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/JFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JFK</span></a>.</p>
𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆®<p>👇🇺🇸"Where does Kennedy’s nuclear legacy leave us 60 years later?" <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/JFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JFK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Khrushchev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Khrushchev</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/NUKES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NUKES</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a> <br><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4040800-where-does-kennedys-nuclear-legacy-leave-us-60-years-later/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/opinion/national-s</span><span class="invisible">ecurity/4040800-where-does-kennedys-nuclear-legacy-leave-us-60-years-later/</span></a></p>
Clemens Vasters' Pictures 📷<p>Vought F-8 <a href="https://photog.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/airandspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airandspace</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/aircraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aircraft</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/airplanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airplanes</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avgeek</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/aviationphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aviationphotography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/cubanmissilecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cubanmissilecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/f8crusader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>f8crusader</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/marinecorps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marinecorps</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/planes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planes</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/rf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rf8</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smithsonian</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/unitedstatesnavyreserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unitedstatesnavyreserve</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/vietnamwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vietnamwar</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/vought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vought</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/highlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highlight</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/jet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jet</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>navy</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/photoreconnaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photoreconnaissance</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/stevenfudvarhazycenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stevenfudvarhazycenter</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/supersonic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supersonic</span></a> (Flickr 08.07.2016) <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28203492092" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/</span><span class="invisible">28203492092</span></a></p>
Heretical_i<p>Reminder. The US caused the so-called "<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/CubanMissileCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CubanMissileCrisis</span></a>" all by itself.</p><p>"The Jupiter Missiles and the Cuban Missile Crisis Endgame", National Security Archive<br><a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuban-missile-crisis-nuclear-vault/2023-04-20/jupiter-missiles-and-cuban-missile?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f58ce6ef-2a01-40b0-b2bd-4848ed96c887" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo</span><span class="invisible">k/cuban-missile-crisis-nuclear-vault/2023-04-20/jupiter-missiles-and-cuban-missile?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f58ce6ef-2a01-40b0-b2bd-4848ed96c887</span></a></p>
Erik Jonker<p>Great article on the Cuban Missile Crisis and what we can learn from it with regard to the war in Ukraine.<br><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/cuba/missile-crisis-secret-history-soviet-union-russia-ukraine-lessons" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">foreignaffairs.com/cuba/missil</span><span class="invisible">e-crisis-secret-history-soviet-union-russia-ukraine-lessons</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cubanmissilecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cubanmissilecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Foreignaffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Foreignaffairs</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/geopolitics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>geopolitics</span></a></span></p>
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