October 1962 is widely known as a period of time when nuclear tensions were heightened during the Cuban Missile Crisis ... of nuclear weapons is another large difference in tensions now compared ...

Six decades before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, there was the Cuban Missile Crisis ... computer that simulated a large Soviet nuclear attack ...

Their calls come on the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. “The Kremlin is making ... Russia’s military is set to stage its own annual large-scale nuclear exercise called “Thunder ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction ... The communist Soviet Union stepped in and agreed to buy large quantities of sugar from Cuba, building relations between ...

For six decades, the Cuban missile crisis has been viewed as the defining ... Putin has backed himself into a corner by declaring large chunks of neighboring Ukraine as belonging to Russia ...

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 ...

While the harrowing, roughly 13-day affair that's come to be known in the United States as the Cuban Missile Crisis — or the ... And today, large-scale conflict has returned to Europe with ...

The missiles, tipped with nuclear warheads, had a range of 1,200 miles, putting a large part of the Eastern ... to bomb the Cuban missile bases. And, he said, although Kennedy was still ...

After all, as McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser during the Cuban missile crisis, noted years later: “The risk can be very small indeed and still much too large for comfort.” ...

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 ...