358 Views Program ID: 174959-1 Category: United Nations Format: Speech Location: New York, New York, United States First Aired: Feb 04, 2003 | 9:30pm EST | C-SPAN 3 ...

Historians now say it was behind-the-scenes compromise rather than a high-stakes game of chicken that resolved the faceoff, that both Washington and Moscow wound up winners and that the crisis ...

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 ...

Air Force Col. Joe M. O'Grady put down roots in Birmingham, but the ace pilot also traveled the world and personally briefed President John F. Kennedy after discovering Soviet missile launch sites ...

From its initial 12 members, NATO had expanded east toward the USSR with the addition of Greece, Turkey, and West Germany, by the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Russia-watchers have been quick to invoke the Cuban Missile Crisis precedent, which implies that Russia would station nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles of some type in the Caribbean.But history ...

FORTY YEARS AGO this month, President John F. Kennedy was locked in a test of wills with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev over missiles in Cuba. Memorialized in both film and print, the Cuban ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved in 13 days. Sixty years ago this month, the United States and Soviet Union faced off in, arguably, ...

America is on the brink of a new Cuban Missile Crisis — this time in space — as Russia develops nuclear anti-satellite armaments, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner said.

In October it will be 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, which has been called the most dangerous crisis in recorded history. The Soviet Union had secretly placed missiles in a base in Cuba ...

The world stood on the edge of nuclear conflict as a U.S. president held firm and took radical action to end that threat ...