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Last Nuclear Weapons Left Cuba in December
1962
Soviet Military
Documents Provide Detailed Account of Cuban Missile Crisis
Deployment and Withdrawal:
New Evidence on Tactical Nuclear Weapons - 59 Days in Cuba
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 449
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton With Anna
Melyakova
Washington, DC, December 11, 2013 -- The last Soviet nuclear
warheads in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis did not leave the
island until December 1, 1962, according to Soviet military
documents published today for the first time in English by the
National Security Archive at George Washington University
(www.nsarchive.org).
At 9 o'clock in the morning on December 1, 1962, the large Soviet
cargo ship Arkhangelsk quietly left the Cuban port of Mariel and
headed east across the Atlantic to its home port of Severomorsk
near Murmansk. This inconspicuous departure in fact signified the
end of the most dangerous crisis of the Cold War. What was called
"the Beloborodov cargo" in the Soviet top secret cables -- the
nuclear warheads that the Soviet armed forces had deployed in Cuba
in October 1962 -- was shipped back to the Soviet Union on
Arkhangelsk.
According to the documents, Soviet nuclear warheads stayed on the
Cuban territory for 59 days -- from the arrival of the ship
Indigirka on October 4 to the departure of Arkhangelsk on December
1. U.S. intelligence at the time had no idea about the nature of
the Arkhangelsk cargo. Arkhangelsk carried 80 warheads for the
land-based cruise missile FKR-1, 12 warheads for the dual-use Luna
(Frog) launcher, and 6 nuclear bombs for IL-28 bombers -- in total,
98 tactical nuclear warheads. Four other nuclear warheads, for
torpedoes on the Foxtrot submarines, had already returned to the
Soviet Union, as well as 24 warheads for the R-14 missiles, which
arrived in Cuba on October 25 on the ship Aleksandrovsk, but were
never unloaded. The available evidence suggests that the 36
warheads for the R-12 missiles that came to Cuba on the Indigirka
also left on Aleksandrovsk, being loaded at Mariel between October
30 and November 3.
12/11/2013
Regeringsrokade
; Danmark 2013
Skatteminister Holger K. Nielsen (SF) udnævnes til
udenrigsminister.
Minister for fødevarer, landbrug og fiskeri Karen
Hækkerup (S) udnævnes til justitsminister.
Medlem af Folketinget Jonas Dahl (SF)udnævnes til
skatteminister.
Medlem af Europa-Parlamentet Dan Jørgensen (S)
udnævnes til minister for fødevarer, landbrug og
fiskeri.
Mette Frederiksen og Holger K. Nielsen indtræder som
medlemmer af regeringens koordinationsudvalg, idet Morten
Bødskov og Pia Olsen Dyhr samtidig udtræder.
Henrik Sass Larsen og Pia Olsen Dyhr indtræder som medlemmer
af regeringens økonomiudvalg, idet Mette Frederiksen og
Holger K. Nielsen samtidig udtræder.
Litteratur: Arktis ligger vidåben: SF’s
nye udenrigsminister Holger K. Nielsen har én mulighed for
at træde i karakter. At satse alt på en akut
tiltrængt politik for rigsfællesskabets rolle i Arktis.
/ : Lars Trier Mogensen, Information 12/13/2013.
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