You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - IX. False Start
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False Start The Russians were the first to test an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile successfully, in 1957, but almost from the time we got our first one, the Atlas D, in 1959, they had been way behind us in the number of ICBMs they had. We didn’t know it, but at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, they didn’t even have ten ICBMs. We had both the Atlas and the Titan I in operation by then, maybe a hundred missiles.
You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - IX. False Start
You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - IX…
You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - IX. False Start
False Start The Russians were the first to test an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile successfully, in 1957, but almost from the time we got our first one, the Atlas D, in 1959, they had been way behind us in the number of ICBMs they had. We didn’t know it, but at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, they didn’t even have ten ICBMs. We had both the Atlas and the Titan I in operation by then, maybe a hundred missiles.