The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

As the Cuban missile crisis reached its peak over the next ... A more ominous gap concerned the location of the warheads for the 36 medium-range missiles capable of hitting Washington and New ...

Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cubans recall how their government prepared them for what it insisted was the conflict’s inevitable end: all-out war with the United States.

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Chinese experts have compared Washington's intention to deploy new medium-range missile launchers in ... that triggered the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Global Times newspaper has said.