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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