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

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 ...

In 1962, the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis––a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union––could end in nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...

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 ...

Just in time for its 60 th anniversary, the Cuban missile crisis is trending big time. President Biden warned last week that Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine portends ...

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

Sixty years ago this month, what has become known as the Cuban missile crisis began. The world’s two nuclear superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, faced off across the Straits of ...

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.