In October of 1999, the Pentagon declassified, for the first time, the locations of nuclear

weapons it possessed outside of the United States.

It revealed, in the words of nuclear arms expert Robert Norris, quote,

a huge expanse of nuclear weapons around the globe.

Although the Pentagon only named nine locations in its unclassified documents, independent

researchers were able to figure out that American nuclear weapons had been stationed in Canada,

Greenland, Japan, Morocco, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Marshall Islands.

But there was one revelation from the Pentagon in 2000 that really sticks out.

It turns out the US had secretly placed nuclear material in Puerto Rico in 1956, less than

200 miles away from Cuba.

In fact, at the time of the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis in fall of 1962, there were

American nuclear assemblies on Cuban soil in Guantanamo Bay.

The only thing missing was plutonium, just a flight or boat ride away from Florida.

Welcome to Blowback.

This is Episode 7, Anadir.

So if you're still with us, in the last episode, we talked about the fallout from the Bay

of Pigs.

We looked at how JFK quickly convened a group of top advisors to figure out what went

wrong, and more importantly, how to make sure they could topple Castro right next time.

We discussed Atlanzdale and the birth of Operation Moncus, a multi-agency effort to undo

the Cuban Revolution, overseen by JFK's enforcer, his little brother Attorney General Bobby.

And we talked about how America's espionage and economic warfare led both Nikita Khrushchev

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