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.

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 ...

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. This month marks the 60th anniversary of ...

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.

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.

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. For two tense weeks from October 16 to October 29, 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear ...

Politics; October 28, 2022; The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war.

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 ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a vivid memory for Harzinski. He was a young kid at the time, so he didn't feel stressed, but he was aware that it was something that adults took seriously.

“That layer of civilian government showed its worth during the Cuban missile crisis,” adds Warner. “We’ll never know how near we came to nuclear war in 1962 but it’s fair to say we came ...