How many times have we approached the brink of Armeggedon, besides the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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wiyh iran and al kaida at large and only Bush fighting them, we are at brink every second
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how many more times are you going to ask this question?
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October 10, 732... The Battle of Tours,  If not for this battle, Europe would have been dominated by Islam.\n\n1242 AD... The Mongols stop their invasion of Europe. if not for this, all of Europe would have been destroyed, and whoever  was left would have survived in a new stone age.\n\n1963, Cuban Missile Crisis... JFK averts a nuclear war.
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two since 9/11, both in Iraq and a year long.\nthen one more back in the first desert storm also for a year.
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Letsee... \n\n1776-1783: US Revolution\n1812-1815: War of 1812\n1846-1848: Mexican War\n1861-1865: Second US Revolution\n1898: Spanish-American\n1917-1918: World War I\n1941-1945: World War II\n1950-1953: Korea\n1961-1972: Vietnam\n1991: Gulf War II\n2001: Afghanistan\n2003: Gulf War III\n\nSo, America has had about 194 years of peace in the 230 years that it's been around.
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Hair breadth from utter destruction- too many close calls\n\nOn October 27, 1962, a Soviet submarine officer named Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov reportedly refused to comply with the launch of a nuclear warhead while apparently under attack by a U.S. warship near Cuba.\n\nSeptember 26th, 1983 - Colonel Stanislav Petrov disobeys protocols and fails to launch Soviet Missiles after his early warning system indicated 5 missiles launched by the US at the Soviet Union.\n\nJanuary 25, 1995 - A peaceful scientific rocket is launched off the coast of Norway. To the east, in Russia, radar operators mistake the launch for a nuclear attack by the West. A deadly process -- nearly on auto-pilot -- is triggered. Within minutes President Yeltsin has been alerted of the attack. For the first time in history, the Russian nuclear briefcase is activated.\n\nI believe they're a necessary evil, especially in this age of rogue states and leaders.  The nearness to calamities, however, from false alarms makes them scary, and these are only the enemies false alarms, i wonder how many US false positives there have been since 1950.
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At least more than 3 times.
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we've gone to war with countries that were backed by nuclear countries, but never directly with a nuclear power.  we can't and won't ever do it because of a doctrine called MAD - mutually assured destruction.
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TONS!!! Where do you want to start...the Philippines, Vietnam, Iraq, Hawaii, the Whole of the Spanish American War....Not standing up to Hitler until we were forced into war....IRAQ - twice!
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First, this is not necessarily misguided, just not really feasible. Just as we were all up in arms on 9/12 because we were unprepared for such a disaster as planes flying into the Twin Towers, when an ICBM detonates over Sioux City we are going to be very angry again.\n\nWhile I do not disagree that we need missile defense as part of a comprehensive defense of the USA, until the technology is actually ready the idea of forcing money into it will not work. Because of the immense consequences and the relatively short time periods, this system cannot rely on human control as our current technology would require; this is not Atari's Asteroids game. We must have a system that can be able to monitor and control itself, and since we cannot master that sort of technology even for the telephone system yet, how are we supposed to trust a system with ion beams and nuclear weapons to not suddenly decide to 'kill all humans!' because it sees a flock of geese?\n\nIt is not a bad idea, just an idea that we cannot effectively put into place yet. If we were to put the technology into action that we posess now (as the President has suggested), it would not effectively protect the USA but will instead convince our leaders that we are indeed protected and that we can begin to threaten potential enemies with nuclear brinksmanship without any adverse consequences. If you think we are hated now, just wait!
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In reference to another post there is no working star wars program in place, we are just as vulnerable to a missile attack today as we were fifty years ago, now the likelihood of a large scale nuclear attack is much much lower without the soviets runnin around, though it is always possible that by some computer error that a launch will take place from either us or the russian silos, afterwards if we don't convince each other that it was a mistake it would probably lead to a full scale nuclear exchange, now that covers the U.S. and Russia, but don't forget the other nuclear nations out there such as Pakistan and India which are pretty much where the U.S. and Soviets were twenty years ago, so on that side of the planet I would say within the next two years that there is a 20% possibility of a nuclear exchange barring any massive change in policy or major event such as some sort of military incident betweent those two countries. It is possible that there could be a nuclear device smuggled and detonated in the U.S. by some terrorist organisation but that would not lead to a nuclear war, unless the perpetrators of such an attack posessed a nuclear arsenal. Let me just say that with today's great technology a nuclear device does not have to be any bigger than a briefcase and with lax border control and nearly unlimited funding for terrorist organisations in addition to lack of intelligence on nuclear material around the world it is very possible that some terrorist organisation may suceed in detonating a device on American soil. Let's all hope that never happens
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The Honorable Philip W. Bonsal was ambassador to Cuba from the U.S. from Jan. 1959 until Oct. 1960, when he was recalled by Pres. Dwight Eisenhower.  Diplomatic relations with Cuba were subsequently broken by Pres. Eisenhower on Jan 3, 1961. We've had no diplomatic relations and no ambassador to Cuba since that date.\n\nThe Cuban Missile crisis didn't arise until a year later.\n\nThe U.S.UN Ambassador was Adlai Stevenson
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Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.\n\nSo 6 times.
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No, because while the US did maintain missile forces in Europe, they were not placed there secretly. The Organization of American States had declared Cuba after the Castro revolution to no longer be a legitimate member of the hemisphere.\n\nThe Soviet Union, while yes they were trying to even the playing field in a manner of speaking, was still acting secretively, dishonestly, and dangerously.
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They've not sufficiently provoked us for a nuclear attack. Not that I want it to get to that point, but there's many steps to be taken inbetween.\n\nAnd nuclear war is not inevitable - look at the Cold War. Even when it became a hot war (Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan), the nukes stayed within their silos.
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Yes many many many many times.  There is a ton of information out there.  Do a search using "Israeli peace talks".  Happy reading
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Cuba stopped invading other countries when the USSR ran out of money.  Since they are no longer a threat to anybody but themselves, there's no point invading them.