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To: combjelly who wrote (426991)	10/16/2008 9:04:22 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 1576152

>> Why did they put them in Cuba in the first place? According to McNamara, because they thought they could get away with it. No other reason. As you surely recall, Castro initiated it, by inviting the installation of missiles on Cuba in response to the Bay of Pigs. MAD doesn't exist when one side can lob missiles at you while the other can only hope to get bombers through your air defenses. Surely, you aren't suggesting that they didn't have nuclear-tipped missiles capable of destroying the US without the Cuba placements? Not only ICBMS, but dangerous SLBMs. Now, it is true that from Cuba they can be anywhere in the nation very quickly and that was an additional threat, but we were under heavy threat of nuclear attack before Cuba. They didn't need Cuba for MAD to be in full force. As Reagan correctly believed, MAD was an insane approach to self-defense. He thought it was morally bankrupt. And that was the inception of SDI, the father modern-day missile defense.

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