The Cuban Missile Crisis: Dangerous days
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Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces - The Cuban Missile Crisis
Christoff was committed to the notion that the missiles would remain undiscovered by the Americans. They had to move these missiles across the Soviet Union and load them on freighters in the Black Sea port of Odessa. Taubman: "The notion that this operation could be carried out and not discovered as these ships trundled thousands of miles across the open ocean, it was a half-crazed scheme"
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