In the years following Kennedy’s assassination, his top advisers, though privy to the secret deal, sustained the sacred myth of the Cuban missile crisis. Early memoirs from former officials such ...

If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop ...

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 ...

A poster depicting a soldier with the slogan ... 23 op-ed, “To confront Putin, Biden should study the Cuban missile crisis,” David Ignatius neglected to mention the most relevant similarity ...

October marks 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, when the US and USSR were on the brink of nuclear war. Historians and experts warn that the war in Ukraine is presenting similar dangers.

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.

When President Biden compared Russia's nuclear threat against Ukraine to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, it highlighted just how much that Cold War showdown continues to shape our collective psyche.

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 ...