the missiles could destroy cities within ten minutes of being launched had been deployed throughout europe and the soviet union. the inf was a crowning success and it cooled tensions at a critical moment, the cold war. nearly 2700 nuclear missiles were destroyed between the u.s. and soef union. why would we ditch it now? the russians have not been honoring the treaty. putin criticized it as early as 2007 and was producing new weapons systems during the obama years drawing a stern diplomatic rebuke but little else. a treaty isn t worth much when the other side isn t respecting it. it made sense in a dual superpower world but much less sense today when it s estimated 95% of china s 2,000 nuclear missiles fall into this category. now unless we all change course within six months, the treaty will be officially over and open escalation may escalate on both sides. nuclear arms races are good for
and fbi had gathered on lee harvey oswald until the assassination. we saw a memo written by j. edgar hoover saying he was very concerned about the lack of security for oswald by the dallas police department. you ll recall oswald was shot by jack ruby being moved from the basement of the dallas police headquarters. according to this memo, hoover heard of potential threats to oswald and repeatedly urged the police in dallas to give more security and was very disappointed when they didn t. and finally, a memo to the fbi director about the world reaction, including from top officials in the soef union who said their assumption after the assassination was that kennedy was killed by what they called an ultrafar right conspiracy and that the russians were worri worried the soefr yets were worried in days after the
the british fought three wars there in the early 19th and 20th century. there were many many wars going back a couple thousand years in afghanistan. but at the start of the second era in 1979 to 19 the the soef yachts invaded. the cia armed and funded a group of jihadi warriors called the mu gentleman ha dean. then the slow break up of the soef union forced them to get out. from 1989 to 2000 one afghanistan was basically a wreck, a civil war anded control to the taliban and the country s strief forced this country to its knees. and then september 11th happened. for more than a decade the u.s. struggled to succeed, including in 2010 the surgery, another 33,000 soldiers and marines bringing it to almost a hundred,000 fighters in afghanistan. in 2014 president obama unveiled