Category: Heritage

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.

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The U.S. government has declassified the Soviet “War Scare” report on the 1983 War Scare. New information revealed that retired Lt. Gen. Leonard Perroots, then assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Air Forces Europe, had acted out of his own instincts to stop the escalation of the crisis.

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The U.S. government has finally agreed to do the final clean-up of the Palomares B-52 crash site in southern Spain, nearly fifty years since the bomber collided with a refueling tanker.

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