
Soviet nuclear missile alert
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The Star Wars - A Star Wars Story
I know this is a formidable technical task, one that may not be accomplished before the end of this century. Yet current technology has attained a level of sophistication where reasonable for us to begin this effort. Soviet leaders believed that this star war's programm would change the terrible equation of mutually assured destruction. So imagine the tension when in serpakof 15, shortly after midnight, this happened. In everyone had leaped up and had turned to look at me. I followed our instructions. There was a protecall.
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