President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis. Front page of the Evening Journal from Oct. 29, 1962. Kennedy designated ...

The discussion introduced me to the story of the “Gray Ghosts,” a Navy reconnaissance squadron whose low-level flights over Cuba provided critical intelligence during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It also ...

The presence of a Russian military flotilla passing by South Florida and conducting military exercises just miles from the coast is evoking for some the 13 days of white-knuckle tension in October ...

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 ...

For 13 days in October of 1962, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war as the U.S. and the Soviet Union feuded over ...

Jeffrey H. Smith, senior counsel at Arnold & Porter, is a former general counsel of the CIA. Is Russia still abiding by the terms of the “understanding” that resolved the 1962 Cuban missile crisis?

How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war. A spy photo of a ballistic missile base in San Cristobal, Cuba, taken in October of 1962.(Getty Images) On ...

High-alert: People in a department store watch President John F. Kennedy’s TV announcement of Cuban blockade during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Ralph Crane Life Magazine/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ...

Onlookers at a Key West, Fla., beach where the Army’s Hawk anti-aircraft missiles were positioned during the Cuban missile crisis. Underwood Archives/Getty Images History has often been shaped by ...