A)When the Chinese Stole a Soviet Tank, They Nearly Went Nuclear!
Shahan Russell
Soviets and Chinese using sticks against each other during the Sino-Soviet splitMost
people believe the world narrowly avoided nuclear catastrophe during
the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Though correct, that wasn’t the end of
it. In 1969, the world stood on the brink of yet another atomic
disaster because the Russians and the Chinese screwed up in 1892.
That
was the year the Russian Empire and the Qing Dynasty agreed to
recognize the Sarikol Range as the dividing line between them.
Unfortunately, they never demarcated exactly where China ended and where
Russia began.
The
US Navy has ten Nimitz-class supercarriers stationed around the world
to protect air and sea lanes and to project America’s formidable
airpower wherever needed. Generally, one of these carriers is in the
Middle East all of the time
