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 ...

At 9 am on the morning of Sunday, October 28, 1962, Radio Moscow transmitted Nikita Khrushchev’s intention to dismantle the missiles he had placed in Cuba and return them to... Russia-watchers have ...

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 ...

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Gen. Charles de Gaulle, a French hero and statesman who did not lack for self-esteem, once stated, “When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.” In October 1962, after U.S. charges that 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 ...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, four Soviet Foxtrot class submarines tried to run the blockade on Cuba. As the US navy hunted them, the diesel powered submarines were forced to stay submerged. In the ...

During a panic-filled October fifty years ago, the world teetered on the brink of annihilation. Reports that the U.S.S.R aimed to set up secret missile bases in Cuba—the Communist-run Caribbean nation ...

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 -- ...

HAVANA (AP) – The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet ...