The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation that brought the United States, and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
In October 1962, the world narrowly escaped a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union. US President John F. Kennedy ...
Russia-Ukraine War, now three years old, is entering its most perilous phase yet. The Kremlin has once again raised the ...
On October 27, 1962, the world nearly ended as the commanders of the Soviet Submarine B-59 considered firing a T-5 nuclear torpedo against the us war fleet. If you have any feedback, questions or ...
The world was going to end. That was all you knew, or thought you knew, on October 16, 1962.” Bob Brody reflects on the Cuban ...
On October 20, 1962, China launched attacks against India in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, resulting in a month-long conflict ...
Philadelphia Inquirer front page of October 23, 1962, the morning after President John F. Kennedy's televised address to the ...
October 14 has been a date marked by pivotal moments that shaped the course of history across the globe.Going back to 1066, ...
A clip from the BBC Archive from President John Kennedy’s television broadcast to the American people on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sutable for teaching GCSE History units on The Cold War in England ...
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 -- ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted from October 16 to 28, 1962. It began when U.S. spy planes photographed Soviet nuclear ...
Russia on Thursday said that there was no Cold War with the West because it was now a "fiery" conflict, and that the European ...