Robert B. Farquhar, an anti-nuclear activist from Georgia, who has written a book on the subject titled Duck and Cover, asserts that, “In 1946 the U.S. had about 7 atomic bombs, none completely assembled; by 1956, 5,000, all assembled; Russia had about 150.” (1) And yet, Stalin and Beria estimated that the number of atomic bombs […]
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April 17, 2011 commemorates the 50th anniversary of America’s disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. During 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower watched with trepidation the establishment of an authoritarian regime in Cuba unfriendly to the United States, only 90 miles from American shores, virtually in America’s own backyard. On assuming power in 1961,
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