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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kennedy’s speech marked the public beginning of the Cuban missile crisis, a dangerous international confrontation over questions of security, alliances and self-determination. Now, 60 years ...

In October it will be 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, which has been called the most dangerous crisis in recorded history. The Soviet Union had secretly placed missiles in a base in Cuba ...

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.

"For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path they'd been going," Biden told Democratic donors ...

Aerial view taken in October 1962 of one of the Cuban medium-range missile bases, during the Cuban missiles crisis. AFP Sixty years ago the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of ...

Peace activists wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and US President Joe Biden pose with mock nuclear missiles in front of the US embassy in Berlin on January 29, 2021, in an ...