Word: antiaircraft
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...ground. Soviet and Cuban crews scrambled for their antiaircraft missiles...
...Cuba is heavily ringed with conventional antiaircraft batteries. There are at least 24 emplacements of Russian ground-to-air missiles, the SA2, with a capability of reaching 80,000 ft. into the sky. There are more than 100 MIG fighters, including at least 42 MIG-21s able to carry atomic weapons for short ranges at speeds of better than 1,000 m.p.h. Castro's Cuba also now has at least twelve "Komar" patrol boats armed with 10-to 15-nautical-mi.-range missiles that can carry atomic warheads...
Probably the first U.S. response would be diplomatic: to persuade the Russians of the advantages of pulling out and the risks of staying. (The Soviet-U.S. duel over Cuba currently goes on under strange rules: the U.S. tolerates Soviet antiaircraft weapons, which in turn do not fire on low-flying U.S. reconnaissance planes.) But a real uprising in Cuba would not be like a Bay of Pigs invasion financed from abroad. It would be a cry for help which the U.S. could not afford to ignore...
...Satellite. The storm blew up over a U.S. State Department press release bluntly chiding Canada for its failure to equip its jet interceptors and antiaircraft missiles with nuclear warheads, and openly disagreeing with public statements made by Diefenbaker on U.S.-Canada defense plans and negotiations. Drafted "on a lower level," and handled in a manner that Britain's Manchester Guardian called "a foolish piece of hamfistedness." the release was approved by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and issued after only a 30-minute advance notice to the Canadian Department of External Affairs. Furious at both the content and style...
...beginnings of the argument went back to 1958, when Canada first agreed to contribute two squadrons of air-breathing Bomarc antiaircraft missiles to a joint North American Air Defense Command. Three and a half years ago, the Canadians also promised to provide eight jet squadrons for the NATO air shield in Europe. But Diefenbaker, fearing the opposition of Canadian ban-the-bombers, could never quite bring himself to accept the nuclear armament designed for the jets and missiles...