The Cuban missile crisis was the moment during the Cold War when the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war.

Many contradictions emerge from the nine published accounts of the confrontation between the Soviet submarine B-59 and American antisubmarine-warfare units during the Cuban missile crisis of October ...

AT the height of the “Cuban crisis,” no Cuban voice was heard or listened for. The island's identity vanished behind the storm. But as people blink their way back into the light, it is ...

When 94-year-old veteran foreign correspondent Marvin Kalb speaks, world leaders should pay attention. His new memoir, 'A ...

TASS/. The current international tensions are posing more risks to the world than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, while Washington’s opportunistic policy has been escalating things, Juan Sanchez ...

This course examines the period of crises and détente in the Cold War between the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The course centres on how markets, ideas, ...

This course examines the origins of the Cold War and the dynamics of its rise during the period from World War II to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. It looks at long-term trends as well as specific ...

On 1st January, 1959, Cuban's right-wing government led by the dictator General Batista, was overthrown. Fidel Castro took control of Cuba. Political and economic tension rose between Cuba and the ...

Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the ... The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies.

The crisis that developed over Cuba in October 1962 almost resulted in nuclear war ... American investment controlled much of Cuban business, and the country's economy relied on sales of sugar ...