Word: antiaircraft
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...President Kennedy and Khrushchev, the U.S. continued regular U-2 overflights to make certain that no new missiles were sneaked back in. Though Castro raged at the flights, there was nothing he could do about it so long as his Soviet part ners controlled the SAM II antiaircraft rockets capable of bringing down...
...Russians have indeed removed all their nuclear ballistic missiles. But the Russians have left behind an impressive array of "defensive" hardware: battalions of tanks, hundreds of mobile nonnuclear FROGs (free-rocket-overground) with a 30-mile range, about 60 supersonic MIG-21 jet fighters and more than 100 antiaircraft SAM rockets. Ready to step in at the 25 SAM sites around the island are Cuban crews, who have had more than a year of training under Soviet instructors. There is some evidence that the Russians are pulling out their most sophisticated radar tracking systems, leaving the Cubans with second-rate...
...during the presidential flight to scan the area for strange aircraft. Submarines and destroyers at sea were ordered to keep a close watch on their radar screens. Air Force and Navy all-weather planes patrolled every possible air corridor from Cuba to Florida and up the East Coast. Army antiaircraft installations were at the ready. Along the whole Eastern seaboard, dozens of fighter pilots sat on alert in their cockpits...
More Hits. Then came World War II, and Wiener went to work designing aiming, devices for antiaircraft guns. He demonstrated that gun sights are basically mathematical. Controlled by mechanisms based on far-out mathematical theorems, guns made more hits, radars tracked more targets. Wiener's work was invaluable, but he declared that he would never again touch military weapons. He stuck to his resolution despite bitter criticism...
...Next day, the jovial mood changed. At the traditional Red Square parade celebrating the anniversary of the Revolution, the Russians displayed a squadron of finned, 50-ft.-long rockets, which they insisted were anti-missile missiles (the birds looked more like beefed-up versions of the Soviet SA-2 antiaircraft missile, and Western observers thought that at most they could be the equivalent of the U.S Army's Nike Zeus). At the Kremlin reception later, Khrushchev's toasts were so heartily anti-Western that U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler finally asked: "Where is the Spirit of Moscow? I haven...