Crateology
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Soviet ship carrying crates holding Komar guided-missile patrol boats on their way to Cuba, September 1962
Crateology was the 'science' of identifying the contents of Soviet shipments to the Island of Cuba carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cuban Missile Crisis.[1]
Crateology has declined as a discipline in recent years due to globalisation and the decline in the usage of custom made wooden crates in favour of standard metal shipping containers. Though making the world intra-connected and smaller, globalisation has resulted in the loss of not merely a science, but a 'beautiful art form'.[2]
See also[]
- CIA activities in Cuba
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- National technical means of verification
- Remote sensing
References[]
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- Cold War military history of the Soviet Union
- Cuba–United States relations
- History of Cuba
- 1962 in Cuba
- History of the foreign relations of the United States
- Presidency of John F. Kennedy
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Nuclear history of the United States
- Nuclear warfare
- Cuba–Soviet Union relations
- Soviet Union–United States relations
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