A half century ago, the small Cuban town of Bejucal came to American attention when it was discovered that the Soviet Union had installed nuclear weapons there, just 167 miles from Florida. President Kennedy imposed a naval quarantine against Cuba, and Nikita Khrushchev removed the Soviet Union’s missiles in exchange for a secret agreement by the U.S. to remove comparable weapons from Turkey.
Bejucal is in the news again as the People’s Republic of China has allegedly retrofitted the Soviet-era facility to intercept U.S. electronic communications. This comes at a time when China has supplanted the former Soviet Union as America’s chief geopolitical rival, and has sent a high-altitude surveillance balloon over the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missile silos.
The federal government has not responded to these […]
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