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Answer: Operation Chrome Dome During the cold war period of 1961–68, US Air F.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest What is the dumbest thing the U.S government has ever done? Vivek Rawat, Scientist, Wanderer & Curious. 283.2k views Operation Chrome Dome During the cold war period of 1961–68, US Air Force flew B-52 bomber planes loaded with thermonuclear weapons on a continuous route which went from mid...  Read More » Were Russian tanks less reliable than other German or Allied tanks during WW2? Duc Quyen, Young and married 87k views The Soviets tried desperately to keep the Germans out of Moscow. Stalin had to move troops and equipment from the Far East as well as from the Leningrad front to shore up t... Read More » From a recent session What's ahead for math education in the next ten years? How is it changing? Sarah Lubienski, Mathematics Education Professor, University of Illinois 11k views Before predicting the future, I feel I should recap the past. The past 50+ years have been a time of reform and counter-reform within mathematics education. The post-sputnik...  Read More » If Donald Trump is elected President, will he turn out to be worse than Barack Obama? Tessa E. Tea, I was a child and I have a child. 23k views Yes, Donald Trump would be much worse than President Obama. President Obama is a Constitutional Law professor who made Law Review at Harvard Law School then became presiden...  Read More » What can I learn right now in just 10 minutes that could be useful for the rest of my programming career? Ken Mazaika, CTO, Co-founder & Mentor @ thefirehoseproject-com 486.3k views Learn to open 10 tabs. Seriously. Tabs have a bad reputation, but once I started opening 10 of them, I began to take off as a programmer. There’s a reason why this one small...  Read More » Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't take on America? Cyrus Ragsdale, History Fanatic, mostly post 1800 77.8k views Well the Japanese assumed that they would be able to strike a critical blow to the US. They thought they could destroy or damage so much of the US Pacific fleet to a...  Read More » Why didn't the South secede from the Union after Obama was elected president? Ron Wiseman 122.5k views Having lived a large portion of my life in Texas, I can tell you two certain things related to your questions. 1. Texans love the idea of seceding from the union. They lo... Read More » What was the most important human decision ever made? Balaji Viswanathan, VP of Products at Invento - changing engineering education in India. 41.8k views The decision of a random South African train conductor to throw an Indian lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi off the train. The well suited lawyer turned that insult into the starting... Read More » Why have Europeans stopped immigrating to the United States? Cath Hjorth, Traveller, student and book-nerd 371.5k views As a 19 years old woman born in Scandinavia and now living in England, I'm sorry to say you could not convince me to move permanently to USA. I realize things are differen...  Read More » What happened to the thousands of torpedoes fired by each side which missed their targets in WW2? Are they still live down there, waiting to explode? C Stuart Hardwick, Scifi Author, Writers of the Future winner. 121.8k views They are still down there along with thousands of tons of munitions and chemical and nerve agents dumped after the war. That's right, even today, a few unlucky fishermen ar...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Choose which emails we send you through Email Settings or Unsubscribe.