USAF crews in Okinawa nearly launched nuclear cruise missiles during Cuban Missile Crisis

A former U.S. Air Force airman has come forward with new revelations on how eight launch control centers in Okinawa were given orders to launch their nuclear-armed MGM-13 cruise missiles on Oct. 28, 1962.

TM-76 MACE LAUNCH FROM PAD 21 - 15 November 1960
By United States Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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USS Lassen to challenge 12 nautical mile territorial limits of Chinese artificial islands with P-8A flying cover

The U.S. Navy has dispatched USS Lassen to challenge the 12 nautical mile territorial limits of Chinese-controlled Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly Islands. The ship would likely be accompanied by a P-8A.

Guided missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82)
By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate2nd Class Inez Lawson (http://www.navy.mil; exact Source) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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