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Post by missyfan45 on Jul 9, 2020 19:44:07 GMT
this was a tense period in history that could easily be altered maybe a auton of Kennedy sides with the Soviets and war has to be prevented.
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Post by olegrand on Jul 16, 2020 10:39:31 GMT
The comic book story that has just concluded in DWM was set during this very period, in an US smalltown. It was quite good, with some alien fugitives hiding among the population and their pursuers / sworn enemies trying to covertly track them down, manipulating the townsfolk etc. All this with a lot of psychic action and against the period backdrop of "looming war" paranoia.
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Post by Catsmate on Jul 25, 2020 15:02:43 GMT
The comic book story that has just concluded in DWM was set during this very period, in an US smalltown. It was quite good, with some alien fugitives hiding among the population and their pursuers / sworn enemies trying to covertly track them down, manipulating the townsfolk etc. All this with a lot of psychic action and against the period backdrop of "looming war" paranoia. Lots of CMC related possibilities. From the missiles at Okinawa that received launch orders, to Vasily Arkhipov.
The lack of Soviet "negative technical control" over the ~ninety usable nuclear weapons in Cuba
- six to eight medium range SS-4 ballistic missiles with one megatonne warheads and a range of 2,000km
- two regiments (each with forty missiles) of Meteor/Salish cruise missiles with a range of 150km
The Vandenberg AFB test launch of an Atlas missile, with telling Kennedy.
The lack of American control over nuclear weapons (Jupiter ballistic missiles and free fall bombs) in Turkey; McNamara had ordered American troops to sabotage the missiles if Turkey seemed ready to launch them. And the control of the fighter-bombers was was worse; as one squadron commander ( Lieutenant Colonel Robert Melgard) said of his own pilots "there were some guys you wouldn't trust with a .22 rifle, much less a thermonuclear bomb".
Then there's Major Charles Maultsby, a U-2 pilot, who got lost and strayed into Soviet airspace. On 27OCT1962, the same day another U-2 was shot down over Cuba. Maultsby was tasked with collectng air samples above the North Pole, looking for evidence of a Soviet nuclear test. But he got lost and ended up flying over Siberia, pursued by Soviet fighter. The U-2 ran low on fuel and American fighters took off to retrieve Maultsby, carrying nuclear armed air-to-air rockets and release authority...
Oh course an earlier swing of the hinge is possible: maybe Joe Jr. isn't vapourised during Operation Aphrodite and Joe Kennedy's plans go ahead. But Joe Jr. lacks his little brother's charisma so it's President Nixon in charge in '62.
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