It’s hard to attribute anything but coincidence to the fact that Cuban President Raúl Castro issued a major immigration reform on Tuesday, Oct. 16, which was the 50th anniversary of the start of the ...
FORTY YEARS AGO this month, President John F. Kennedy was locked in a test of wills with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev over missiles in Cuba. Memorialized in both film and print, the Cuban missile ...
New Delhi: Miscalculation, misinformation and misperceptions in the fall of 1962 almost brought the two superpowers of the time, the US and the USSR, to the brink of nuclear conflict, as the sandy ...
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 ...
Foreword / Peter Almond -- Introduction. Armageddon in retrospect: "carrying the fire" of the Cuban Missile Crisis into the twenty-first century -- Cast of characters. Three leaders/three crises -- ...