On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, historians now say it was behind-the-scenes compromise rather than a high-stakes game of chicken that resolved the faceoff, that ...

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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. On ...

Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, warnings abound over the threat of nuclear weapons as the Ukraine war rages.

Politics The Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis Are Actually Pretty Useless Right Now The possibility of nuclear war over Ukraine has everyone talking about 1962—but today’s conflict has ...

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 ...

IDEAS The most important lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis Let’s hope Putin and Biden both understand how not to give way to passions.

Stephen Kinzer is right in arguing that only back-channel negotiations prevented the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating into all-out nuclear war (“The most important lesson of the Cuban ...

These developments have led to comparisons with the Cuban Missile Crisis, a 13-day standoff between the US and the Soviet Union that could have led to war.

The stock market's trajectory during the Cuban Missile Crisis could provide a template for how investors will respond to President Donald Trump's upcoming reciprocal tariffs, according to ...

In the 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, new information has come out that sheds light on the events of October 1962. Here are three key things that you may have missed in history class: ...