In 1962, the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis––a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union––could end in nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...

Politics October 28, 2022 The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war.

Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the USSR were in an existential standoff. The US had ...

Opinion What the Cuban missile crisis teaches us 60 years later: Richard M. Perloff and Anup Kumar Published: Oct. 14, 2022, 5:34 a.m.

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"During the Cuban Missile Crisis, these were much higher yield strategic weapons," one expert told Newsweek.

JFK’s leadership during 13 days of high drama — 60 years ago this month — provides five lessons to help President Biden navigate today’s crisis.

Throughout that crisis, Pye Chamberlayne, Jr. was at the White House. He knows the story of the tense Cuban days well.

For 13 days in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of nuclear annihilation. This is the true story of the closest we’ve ever come to World War III.

The Cuban missile crisis was the moment during the Cold War when the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war.

But don’t take this appalling datum from me. After all I’m an “embittered right-wing-Cuban exile with an axe to grind.” Fine. Take it from JFK’s mistress-of-the-minute herself. Details ...

Then, we reflect on what the U.S. can learn from the Cuban Missile Crisis, 60 years later. As the war in Ukraine weathers on and North Korea threatens missile usage, tensions are heightened yet again.