The Iran situation reminds me of JFK’s decision to pull back from hawkish advisers during the Cuban missile crisis.

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 ...

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 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 a nuclear war. It was a two-week battle of wills between ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Languages: English. October 1962 is widely known as a period of time when nuclear tensions were heightened during the Cuban Missile Crisis; however, many have wondered if tensions are the same now ...

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.