"Nuking Moscow with a Space Shuttle" Topic
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Tango01 | 22 Jan 2020 10:08 p.m. PST |
"During the Cold War, both superpowers spent enormous amounts of money and resources responding to threats from the other side that turned out to not be real. The United States had its bomber gap and missile gap, both based upon faulty intelligence. Those may be the most well-known examples, but there were many others. The Soviet Union, for its part, made numerous false assumptions about what the United States was planning or doing. The most dangerous was the "war scare of 1983," but there were many instances where the Soviet Union pursued weapon systems to counter nonexistent American threats. One of those is the still murky story of the Soviet conclusion that the American space shuttle was developed in part to drop a bomb on Moscow. Fortunately, thanks to an enterprising researcher, new light is being shed on how that myth was born…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Legion 4 | 23 Jan 2020 4:03 p.m. PST |
Well that was out of the box thinking … |
Tango01 | 24 Jan 2020 11:57 a.m. PST |
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