Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis ... On October 25, with the United Nations attempting to resolve the crisis, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sent a coded message to Kennedy ...

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten, high-speed low-level and dangerous recon ...

After the Bay of Pigs incident, Cuba clearly felt threatened by the United States ... Castro in July 1962 and construction of a number of missile launch facilities started later that summer.

Russia’s barbarous invasion of Ukraine a year ago, and the United States’ steadfast support for the embattled former Soviet ...

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union ... Six decades later, the war in Ukraine has produced an echo of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Continuing a policy of serial escalation ...

UMass Lowell's Model United Nations (UMLMUN ... debate and logic skills to find a resolution to the crisis. Past crisis scenarios have included the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Fall of the Soviet Union, ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October 1962 and became one of the most tense moments of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. The cause of the tensions was the ...