The Glomar Explorer

Sep 19, 2019

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Hughes Glomar Explorer. 1970s.

It was the height of the Cold War. The U.S. was losing five hundred guys each week fighting the “global spread of communism” in Southeast Asia. The Berlin Wall stood. The U.S. was developing the NATO defense system in Europe; and witnessing the Soviet Union’s crushing of democratic uprisings on the other side of the I…

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