New reconnaissance photos suddenly changed the course of the Cold War. When U2 images confirmed Soviet missile sites in Cuba ...

Naravane’s memoir exposes political silence, civil–military dysfunction, and leadership burdens under extreme uncertainty.

A map prepared by the Defense Department in 1962 shows potential ranges of Soviet ballistic missiles from Cuba. Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis briefing materials/John F. Kennedy ...

On October 27, 1962, the world nearly ended as the commanders of the Soviet Submarine B-59 considered firing a T-5 nuclear ...

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 ...

Have you ever faked an illness to get out of a meeting or to avoid an obligation? President John F. Kennedy can do you one better. He faked a cold on Saturday, October 20, the fifth day of the Cuban ...

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 ...

As tensions between the US and Cuba rise to the highest levels since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the mood was grim at a recent staff meeting at the US Embassy in Havana.

In a week that felt like we were being waterboarded with bad news every day, Sarah Harte turned to Holocaust survivor and ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...

(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, ...