How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war. A spy photo of a ballistic missile base in San Cristobal, Cuba, taken in October of 1962.(Getty Images) On ...
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest to nuclear war. The conventional wisdom is that decision-making occurred “with ...
On October 21, 1962, as the United States prepares a naval quarantine of Cuba, a dangerous ambiguity emerges inside both superpowers’ military chains of command. Soviet field commanders on the island ...
The key bilateral nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Russia — the New START Treaty — expired in early February of this year.
Have you ever faked an illness to get out of a meeting or to avoid an obligation? President John F. Kennedy can do you one better. He faked a cold on Saturday, October 20, the fifth day of the Cuban ...
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Cuban missile crisis from the Cuban perspective
In this video, we examine the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of Cuba itself. We explore how Fidel Castro and the Cuban leadership viewed the confrontation, their role in the Soviet missile ...
Historical conflicts between the U.S. and Cuba span decades and include the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and ...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President John F. Kennedy, and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara meet in the Cabinet Room in January 1961.(Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy ...
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