This starts to stretch my knowledge of history, but I believe that SSBNs were in their infancy at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Land based missile threats, like Turkey and Cuba, were the meat and potatoes at that time.

That is absolutely fascinating, thanks for commenting. It's interesting (and really important) how command structures break down in times of crisis.

I urge you to read The Wizards of Armageddon, if you haven't already.

Your take on the situation, and especially Kruschev's calculations, does not make sense.

paladjinn's response to you is pretty much on the money.

One of the great things about io9 is we share interests in science, science fiction and fantasy.

Could you take this type of comment somewhere other than io9, please?

A sci-fi novel called Arctic Rising painted just such a scenario. It's a lightweight but entertaining read.

You'll soon self-censor lest you inadvertently:

"io9ers don't really have a beef with Jezzies...."

That guy needs to hotfoot it out of there!

Ha, this was a good one! I think someone pissed in Fourthletter58's Cheerios today.

This is sensible advice; thank you!

I suspect there's a buttload of important factors that this study did not consider.

Huh, what a head-scratcher!

Ha! I regret to report I know a number of people exactly like that. Ryan does seem like he might be one of that crew.

I don't know what Republicans "accept" about any "shining example" based on an old girlfriend Ryan had, and I suspect you're kind of just assuming/imagining that as their perspective while you read this article and found yourself a little offput to discover that maybe the nearly ceaseless invective about Republican…

True color images are awesome.

Serbia. Nice - I bet that's it.

Maybe Safin?