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 ...
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The Day the Cuban Missile Crisis Nearly Triggered Nuclear War
October 27, 1962 becomes the most perilous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. As misunderstandings multiply, aircraft are shot ...
"This book is based on the exhibition "To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis," presented in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery at the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, from October 12, ...
BOSTON, Oct. 20 -- Caroline Kennedy and Sergei Khrushchev met at the John F. Kennedy Library today, 40 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, in what organizers called "the first meeting between the ...
On October 24, 1962, the US naval blockade of Cuba officially begins, and to the world it looks like the decisive showdown.
What a delicious commentary on the Cold War days and more recent doomsdays (“Memories from the end of the world,” Oct. 14)! I, too, recall the “ends of the world” including the Cold War, the Cuban ...
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 ...
Delegates raise their hands in a vote of 19-1 approving the United State' decision to take steps against Cuba, during a meeting of the Organization of American States, called by President Kennedy, to ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Many members of the military have vivid memories of key moments. In this week's Stories of Service, we meet a Navy veteran who served in the Korean War and was involved in the ...
In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a standoff that became the closest we have ever come to a nuclear exchange. This followed after the United States stationed ...
WASHINGTON – America is on the brink of a new Cuban Missile Crisis — this time in space — as Russia develops nuclear anti-satellite armaments while the Biden administration twiddles its thumbs, House ...
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