Cuban Missile Crisis Hypothetical

LaurieAG

LaurieAG

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The question is, if Cuba launched Russian missiles at targets on the US mainland, how many missiles, nuclear or otherwise, would be launched at Cuba by the US?
 
I'm still bound by certain conditions imposed by my military service. So I'm going to have to report you to SID for military espionage. Nice knowing you.
 
LaurieAG said:
The question is, if Cuba launched Russian missiles at targets on the US mainland, how many missiles, nuclear or otherwise, would be launched at Cuba by the US?
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Your point being, I'm assuming, that Russia is going to be upping the attacks against Ukraine and possibly against some US military bases? It's a reasonable concern, IMO.
 
LaurieAG said:
The question is, if Cuba launched Russian missiles at targets on the US mainland, how many missiles, nuclear or otherwise, would be launched at Cuba by the US?
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Cuba still has missiles??
Hope their launch systems are all mechanical. They're experiencing widespread blackouts not to mention food, water and supply shortages.
 
Sarkus said:
Nitpick: are you suggesting that those fired from US silos also aren't "intercontinental", since their point of origin, the USA, is also not a continent? ;)
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Just an atomic powered quibble, nothing more. "It is not the policy of the United States Navy to either confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on its ships and shore installations." Had to drop that more than once during my twenty.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
en.wikipedia.org

Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia

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Frightening stuff. From your link.

by the 27th October, the US had decided to remove missiles from Turkey and Italy

"At this point, Khrushchev knew things the US did not. First, that the shooting down of the U-2 by a Soviet missile violated direct orders from Moscow, and Cuban anti-aircraft fire against other US reconnaissance aircraft also violated direct orders from Khrushchev to Castro.[159] Second, the Soviets already had 162 nuclear warheads on Cuba that the US did not then believe were there.[160] Third, the Soviets and Cubans on the island would almost certainly have responded to an invasion by using those nuclear weapons, even though Castro believed that every human in Cuba would likely die as a result.[161] Khrushchev also knew but may not have considered the fact that he had submarines armed with nuclear weapons that the US Navy may not have known about."
 
So this OP (also posted at your sister website) is an analogy, then? As in, would Russia attack us with nukes or conventional missiles, if Ukraine fired our ATACM missiles into Russia? The poster has not clarified at the other website either. In any case, Ukraine has in fact fired said missiles into Russia. Some escalation is possible, but I doubt that Russia would directly attack US territory.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
Nitpick: Is it "intercontinental" if the point of origin isn't a continent?
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The original Cuban missile crisis was not caused by ICBM's there; it was the threat of IRBM's and MRBM's. Russia's ICBMs were not accurate enough to threaten the US at that point. Interestingly, the compromise resulted in the US removing MRBM's from Turkey as well.

One of the reasons Russia chose Cuba is that Cuba was within range of at least half of the cities in the US, even with the lousy missiles they had at the time.
 
My original post says it. "We don't have that information." If we did we would say "we don't have that information". If we did have that information "we could honestly say we don't have that information." ("We don't have any information we can share.") It's actually more convoluted than that but I've never, ever been involved with nukes. No shit, I haven't. Not at all.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
Just an atomic powered quibble, nothing more. "It is not the policy of the United States Navy to either confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on its ships and shore installations." Had to drop that more than once during my twenty.
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I was one of the official spokesmen for a large and well known telecom company a few years back. They trotted me out whenever they needed a technical guy in an interview. I went through a lot of training to get the phrasing right. Like the "cellphones give you cancer" thing - any question about that got answered "[company Q] follows all relevant safety and RF exposure regulations when it comes to cellphone safety."
 
Yeah, and Cthulhu help you if you get it even slightly wrong. Being stationed in Japan (Yokosuka) we were careful about talking about the big ones.

However, one day a magazine flooded. The word was passed that some of our "special weapons" had gotten wet. Internal speakers only, of course.

OR NOT. :rolleyes:
 
Seattle said:
Your point being, I'm assuming, that Russia is going to be upping the attacks against Ukraine and possibly against some US military bases? It's a reasonable concern, IMO.
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Probably not US bases as Chernobyl is only 130k north of Kiev.

I'm just suggesting that the US should try to look at things from their own perspective when they put pressure on the southern borders of other nuclear nations.
 
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