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 spy photo of a ballistic missile base in San Cristobal, Cuba, taken in October of 1962. (Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

Cuban missile crisis: 3 key facts you may have missed in history class Over 13 days beginning on Oct. 16, 1962, the U.S. and Soviet Union were at the brink of a nuclear conflict.

In 1995, the Russians mistook Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket sent to study the Northern Lights, for an incoming (possibly nuclear) armed ballistic missile.

T he Cuban Missile Crisis occurred over 13 unnerving days in October 1962 and brought the U.S. and Soviet Union alarmingly close to the precipice of a full-scale nuclear war. But to understand how ...

Let us briefly recap the course of the Cuban missile crisis. In October 1962, U2 spy planes spotted Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles being installed in Cuba. Kennedy mounted a naval blockade of the ...

Current leaders would be wise to follow Kennedy’s exemplary rhetorical model when facing and talking publicly about today’s ...

For Kennedy, Hastings writes, the crisis was more political than strategic; missiles in Cuba threatened the United States no more than Soviet ballistic missile submarines already did.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 60 ... ago when the Soviet decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba sparked a facedown with the United ... States no more than Soviet ballistic missile submarines ...

For two weeks in October 1962, the world perched at the brink of nuclear catastrophe. Historian Max Hastings studies the key players in "The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962." ...