In October 1962, the world held its breath as Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba - just 100 miles from the U.S.

In 1962, the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis––a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union––could end in nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...

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Perry, who was also instrumental in helping the U.S. de-escalate the Cuban Missile Crisis 17 years earlier, thought a nuclear World War III was underway. The watch officer, though, believed it ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis ... within their respective camps who insisted that negotiated de-escalation was “appeasement” of a dangerous enemy.

“(Kennedy said) the lesson out of this is that we have to avert crises that lead to confrontations ... which Allison calls a “Cuban Missile Crisis in slow motion.” “The president is ...

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

Here we are 60 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Caribbean Event or Big Trouble in Little Havana, or whatever you want to call it. This week begins the much-remembered 35 days of ...

The two leaders’ radically different approaches to nuclear crises were highlighted ... Kennedy at the height of the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 and sought to de-escalate the standoff.

Now, with echoes of the 1960s missile crisis ... that regular flights between Russia and Cuba, which have been suspended since March 2022, will resume by July 1. Cuba is facing one of the worst ...

Regarding Peggy Noonan’s “Enduring Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis” (Declarations, Oct. 1): When Dwight Eisenhower asked President John F. Kennedy on April 22, 1961, why he had cancelled ...