what happened to the missles and silos after the cuban missle crisis?
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Those were IRBM or Intermedate Range Balistic Missles. They used towed trailer type launchers not Silos. As per the deal worked out, The Missles were removed in exchange for a removal US Jupiter Missles from Turkey & a no invasion pledge for Cuba.  The 2000 Kevin Costner film "Thirteen Days," was a rather good dramatic telling of the events.
988864
In part yes. Not directly because of the launch of the missal because this Valiant Shield was underway before they had any idea of the rocket.  The military have these kind of trials every year in this area.  Nothing sinister about it at all.  Taiwan is another reason.  China another.  Russia another.  hell you are just looking for what is not there.  Do you see ghosts as well.
932735
Sad old man.  I think once Fidel is gone, things between the USA and Cuba will get better.
723302
Probably most of them, but it was the first time a soviet president backed down from the US and gave us a huge advantage psychologically.\n\nI don't think it reduced tensions, but at least Kennedy had a TV broadcast where he showed the world photographs taken form a U2of Soviet missles being set up in Cuba and on Ships.\n\nEven though almost 40 years later, Bush couldn't show us any evidence of anything. He damn sure had no photographs.
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Once launched, missles cannot be stopped.  That is why we have spent so many billions of dollars trying to come up with a system of  defense for intercontinental missles.  This is sometimes made fun of with the name "star wars" defense, but the issue is a serious one: under today's technology, long-range missles cannot be stopped.\n\nThat does not mean that the North Koreans are going to aim their missle (if it works) at the US West Coast.  They aren't that stupid.  The American reaction to such an attack (and that's what it would be, regardless of the armament) would be swift and terrible.  The North Koreans know that.  Their missle, again assuming it works, will be aimed into an empty part of the Pacific.\n\nWhat is actually going on here, I think, is that the North Koreans are doing all this crap in an effort to be considered an important country.  For the last 50 years, their economy has been in the tank, they have had leaders who the rest of the world consider to be a bunch of bad jokes, and they cannot even feed their own people.  They are a basket-case country, on a part with Lesotho or Paraguay--an after thought.  But they think that they can be taken seriously and play on the world's stage, if they have nuclear weapons and long-range missles.  They might be right about that.  They have also calculated that the US is too focused on the Middle East to do much about their arms race.  They are probably wrong on that point.
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all these informations are misleading.the armes were stolen.how can 3000 heavy tanks,4000 armoured personal carriers,3500 heavy artellary guns,200 fighter a/cs,warships,more than 400 helecopters,innumberable different specialised vehcles,base workshops,hospitals....hell of equipments.all disappear in 3 mounthes?.wasnt it the fifth largest army in the world as the world media used to say.
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The OICW project was can celled when it became apparent that it would be impossible to get the weight of the weapon down to a level where it would become a practical combat rifle.\n\nIt was replaced by the XM8 rifle that was itself canceled because the troops in the field demanded that the 5.56mm round be replaced with a more modern bullet.
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one source ws from the former soviet union...after that fell apart many former soviet officials started peddling off their stuff like a yard sale on the black market.  I would guess a lot comes to them through Syria who gets them from russia and china.  You are right Jennifer.  There are international arms dealers who don't care who they sell to...some have lived right here in the U.S.  In wwII there were people who were American citizens who actually sold equipment to Hitler.  I'm sure it continues and that is a disgrace.
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Sold missle technology to China
879716
Yes, but the documents were lost (no Hard Disk back then).\nSo, none of the subcontractors can recall what kind of contracts they signed any more.
391649
Most of the "crisis" was unknown to the people or the world for a few days. The after effects: the people of SU was not happy with the outcome, bc they did not know it was a deal between JFK and NK. The US took missiles out of Turkey and the SU took missiles out of Cuba. The world only knew of the actions of the SU-not the US.
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no, I cant find any either...I didn't even know they existed. I guess thats because they almost don't. All the articles I have read say there are as little as 6-100 left!!?? Wow, thanks for teaching me something today!
749365
Both the XM8 and the OICW have been scraped. The problem of these to models of weapons was really cost vs. benefits. Simply put, the benefits of putting these models of weapons into production just wasn't enough to make up for the cost. All of the benefits of these models can be replicated by add-ons to the current weapons platform, the M4A4. However, The SCAR has recently been put into service as an SF weapons platform. Major selling point was the ability to convert from 5.56 to 7.62. Thats all i know hope it helps. HOOOAAAHHH!
547154
Any arms, or ammunition seized by the US military is destroyed.  What the other guy said was correct.  The people that destroy it are called EOD, they are like the Army bomb squad.  It makes a loud noise happens all the time.\n\n- A soldier in Iraq
190391
This is a port in Cuba where the were receiving merchandise from Russia. Russia had given them 50 ICBM missiles to point at the U.S. during the Cold War. John F. Kennedy made them remove them and the American Navy surrounded Cuba and starved them out. Thus the Bay of Pigs.
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Yeah they died. And on the homefront there were homefront commandos, Rosie the Riveter, war bonds, gas rationing, tobacco rationing, meat rationing, rubber rationing, metal rationing, grease recycling, $1-a-yr CEO salaries, victory gardens, and a draft.\n\nToday the armchair warriors say "WELL I PUT A STICKER ON MY SUV! WHAT MORE CAN A MAN DO?"
586134
The ANNOUNCEMENT was related to end of WWII.  The ENFORCEMENT was related to Korea.  Truman misspoke his doctrine - or was ambiguous - and the Russians and Chinese misjudged his wording, leading to conflagration on the Korean peninsula.  I just don't remember what his misstatement was, precisely.