This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...
And even after six decades there is an important lesson to be learned. The story is familiar to most of our more seasoned readers. In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, Cuba's communist ...
The uneasy postwar alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union quickly dissolved after 1945, replaced by ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edward Segal covers crisis-related news, topics, and issues. The Cuban Missile Crisis highlights how misinformation and ...
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 ...
BLOOMINGTON — On Sunday, Oct. 28, 1962, the world sighed in relief as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was removing its nuclear missiles from Cuba. For two weeks in ...
The crisis in memory -- The palms of spring -- The missiles of October -- K v. K -- The thorn in the flesh -- The rockets hit home -- Only one will face the bull -- And who will blink? -- No very good ...
The United States has been close to war a number of times, but 63 years ago was the closest this country has ever gotten to nuclear war. President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation in a national ...
On Jan. 3, the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife by United States forces reminded us of the Cuban ...
How close did the world come to nuclear war? Test your knowledge of the Cold War’s most dangerous moments — from the Cuban ...
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