The Iran situation reminds me of JFK’s decision to pull back from hawkish advisers during the Cuban missile crisis.

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

Nothing is certain in the Iran-Israel conflict right now, says former foreign secretary and Iran expert Jack Straw, who looks at how bad the situation could get and how the UK could feel the sharp end ...

The crisis also has spawned numerous films, seminars, white papers, and panel discussions. But the initial editorials of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, ...

Six decades before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, there was the Cuban Missile Crisis, the first showdown between nuclear powers that historians say ...

Kennedy, emphasizes the human side of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Published the year after Robert Kennedy’s assassination, the memoir meant to burnish JFK’s reputation, which had been damaged by ...

Just in time for its 60 th anniversary, the Cuban missile crisis is trending big time. President Biden warned last week that Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine portends ...

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 a nuclear war. It was a two-week battle of wills between ...

Humanity barely survived that encounter in 1962, known to history as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Never since then has nuclear apocalypse been as close as it is today. Take it from President Biden.

Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost had a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. We spoke with the last living crew member from our area ...

When President Biden compared Russia's nuclear threat against Ukraine to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, it highlighted just how much that Cold War showdown continues to shape our collective psyche.