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We\u2019ve previously talked about bizarre things<\/a> that happened during the Cold War, and there are many more such stories. Four decades truly is more than enough time for all sorts of wackiness.<\/p>\n

10. Nixon\u2019s Pretend Attack On The Soviets<\/h2>\n

\"Nixon-Smiling\"<\/p>\n

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In October 1969, nuclear-armed bombers took off from the US and raced over the North Pole. The move looked very much like a preemptive strike against the communists. It wasn\u2019t; it was just part of Richard Nixon\u2019s crazy plan to make the Soviet Union think he was crazy<\/a>. Nixon\u2019s thinking was that if the Soviets thought he was crazy, they would tell the North Vietnamese to back off in Vietnam out of fear he would do something rash. Alternately, Nixon might have wanted to deter the Soviets from bombing China\u2019s nuclear weapons facilities, as the Soviets and Chinese were rather unfriendly toward each other at this stage of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

The operation was so secret<\/a> that top US military officials were kept out of the loop, even the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The operation also coincided with US nuclear forces secretly going on alert, again without telling top US generals. In the end, if its goal was to get the Soviets to respond in some way, the operation seems to have failed. The US detected no changes in Soviet activities.<\/p>\n

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