Cuban Missile Crisis. During an evening address to the nation by John F. Kennedy, the DEFCON level drops to 3, which means: submarines equipped with Polaris nuclear missiles leave American ports bound for locations off the coast of the USSR, US Air Force fighters take to the skies armed with tactical nuclear anti-aircraft missiles (Genie and Falcon), over 200 B-47 bombers position themselves at civilian airfields, ready for takeoff with thermonuclear weapons, the crew sleeps in tents alongside the planes a few hundred meters from civilian flights, and every day 65 B-52s remain in the air and approach the territorial border of the USSR, each with a Hound Dog nuclear missile and two Mark-39s or four Mark-28s. And that’s not all: after two days, the DEFCON drops to 2…
