I wasn't ever privy to the details. But there were tensions between nations at the time. Russia, I think.
[Sometimes you only vaguely know about the Cold War through years of barely-gleaned context, or through the very thrilling revelation that the Russians had an underground research facility in a... mall.
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[Sometimes you only vaguely know about the Cold War through years of barely-gleaned context, or through the very thrilling revelation that the Russians had an underground research facility in a... mall.
But that's a gruesome story for another time.]
So probably.
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