#cuban-missile-crisis

#cuban-missile-crisis

On Oct. 25, 1929, former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for oil field leases at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and the Elk Hills and Buena Vista oil fields in California. As a result of the Teapot Dome Scandal Fall would become the first U.S. Cabinet member to be imprisoned for crimes committed while in office.

Peskov said the "topic of Tomahawks is of extreme concern." The older versions of the Tomahawk are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, Peskov warned, "Just imagine a long-range missile is launched and is flying and we know that it could be nuclear." He added to Russian state TV reporter Pavel Zarubin, "What should the Russian Federation think? Just how should Russia react? Military experts overseas should understand this." "Now is really a very dramatic moment in terms of the fact that tensions are escalating from all sides."