I am just normal /k/orean on Nostr: It was probably a probe if we're being honest with ourselves. The distraught it would ...

It was probably a probe if we're being honest with ourselves. The distraught it would have brought to our nation to lose 3 highly trained airmen in the depths of space would have done significant psychic damage. I don't think the US would have actually wanted to gamble that while we were at war with the Soviets.