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The Soviet Field Commanders in Cuba
Field commanders in cuba had independent launch authority, as i've read. They could have decided to start a nuclear war if they were invaded. Castro later has said he would have done a nuclear retaliatory strike. There are all kinds of other cases where or live nucleus bombs were accidentally dropped out ofform out of bombs,. In one case over spain, one of these bombs was never recovered. It just sunk into some marsh land and they could never excavate it. All kinds of crazy stuff happened. And you're a lot of near misses.
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