October 27, 1962 becomes the most perilous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. As misunderstandings multiply, aircraft are shot ...

But controversy surrounding the leaked 28-point Ukraine peace plan (since revised down to 19 points), which was released at ...

After World War II, the former Allied powers quickly became rivals, divided by ideology, economics, and competing visions for ...

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 Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, ...

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 ...

If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop it, these submarines would have been operating just off American shores.

In today’s highly charged political environment, in which a president’s handling of international crises, however competent or inept, is immediately subject to hyperbole and sanctification by ...