After World War II, the former Allied powers quickly became rivals, divided by ideology, economics, and competing visions for ...

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 ...

(WHSV) - 63 years ago on Oct. 27, 1962, the world was on the brink of all-out nuclear war amid the Cuban Missile Crisis. In an incident that came to be known as Black Saturday, the U.S. military was ...

(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, ...

What a delicious commentary on the Cold War days and more recent doomsdays (“Memories from the end of the world,” Oct. 14)! I, too, recall the “ends of the world” including the Cold War, the Cuban ...

On October 22, Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba, to prevent the delivery of any more missiles. From that moment, the two leaders held the fate of the world in their hands, each testing the ...