Current leaders would be wise to follow Kennedy’s exemplary rhetorical model when facing and talking publicly about today’s ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its nuclear saber-rattling have roused the nuclear war genie, with the word “Armageddon” creeping into general discussion during the 60 th anniversary of the Cuban ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let us briefly recap the course of the Cuban missile crisis. In October 1962, U2 spy planes spotted Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles being installed in Cuba. Kennedy mounted a naval blockade of the ...

Next week marks 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis — the 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union widely regarded as the closest we ever came to global nuclear war.

Selected by José Azel, the author, most recently, of ‘On Freedom: 100 Essays. ... President John F. Kennedy, emphasizes the human side of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Cuban missile crisis: 3 key facts you may have missed in history class Over 13 days beginning on Oct. 16, 1962, the U.S. and Soviet Union were at the brink of a nuclear conflict.

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.

The Cuban Missile Crisis has a lesson for today’s stock market as the next Trump tariffs could fuel a huge rebound, top Wall Street forecaster says President John F. Kennedy. · Fortune · Marka ...

This essay was written by /">Michael Dobbs , the author of a cold war ... to a nuclear war, a period now remembered in the West as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The crisis peaked on Oct ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis started October 16th, 1962. "We were on what they call a category two, which is a yellow alert," Dlugas said. "We were on a yellow alert all the time.