Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons, Documents Show (The National

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Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons, Documents Show (The National

Security Archive/Electronic Briefing Book 332 posted 11-16-2010)

Deployments Had Dangerous Potential Because of Predelegation Arrangements (Eisenhower "predelegated" their conditional use)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb332/index.htm

The resumption of the Korean War motivated my posting this-anyone else think that all those US nuclear air defense platforms were NOT accounted for? Anyone else think they caused disease and death to humans despite not be used? Btw, the Boy Scout troop I belonged was told that one of Milwaukee's US Army Nike batteries had atomic warheads-so much for TOP SECRETS even then (circa 1961)...
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