Everyone has been left baffled after learning the nuclear launch code America used during the Cuban Missile Crisis and part of the Cold War. From 1962 to 1977, the passcode intended to keep any ...

Fifty years ago today, at the outset of the Cuban missile crisis, military exercises began under the code name Operation ORTSAC (Castro in reverse). On October 14, 1962, a U2 spy plane captured ...

In our Sunday Morning Cover Story, national security correspondent David Martin looks back at those frightening days of the Cuban Missile Crisis ... on an operation code-named Blue Moon.

(The Anadyr is a river that flows into the Bering Sea; the code name was intended to ... “For the sailors, this Cuban missile crisis started even before its beginning,” Ryurik Ketov, the ...

Remember all those cold war movies where nuclear missile crews are frantically dialing in the secret codes sent by the ... But at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, more than half of the ...

During the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, the men who ran the affairs of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba were locked in a titanic struggle that tested their resolve and moral ...

On Oct. 15, the photos had been analyzed and the Cuban missile crisis had arrived. The fuse that led to this was lit in April 1961, when John F. Kennedy earned Nikita Khrushchev’s contempt with ...