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 ...

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.

“Oh s**t! S**t! S**t! Those sons-of-bitches Russians,” he raged. It was the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the tense 13-day confrontation that marked perhaps the darkest moment of the Cold ...

says UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 25, 1962 (UPI) -- The United States stood firm today on its demand that the Soviet nuclear missile build ... negotiations on the Cuban crisis, held his first ...

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 ...

These developments have led to comparisons with the Cuban Missile Crisis, a 13-day standoff between the US and the Soviet Union that could have led to war. This month marks the 60th anniversary of ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis provided some of the most tense moments in American history, and MacDill Air Force Base played a ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of ...