nuclear missile
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“Any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere” would be seen by the U.S. as “requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The deployment of Soviet nuclear missile sites on the island triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when Washington and Moscow came close to war.
From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026
Based on this research, our movie tries to depict with as much accuracy as possible what will happen if America is ever attacked by a nuclear missile.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
It wasn’t a nuclear missile that failed to work, it was an interceptor.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
Livermore continued to work on Polaris during the moratorium, then followed with the next-generation submarine-launched nuclear missile, Poseidon.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
