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How Early Cold War Tensions Led to the Cuban Missile Crisis

After World War II, the former Allied powers quickly became rivals, divided by ideology, economics, and competing visions for ...
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This Day in History: Cuban Missile Crisis intensifies on ‘Black Saturday’

(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 ...
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The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

(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, ...
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With only one nuclear arms pact left between the U.S. and Russia, a new arms race is possible

For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union hung over humanity — and occasionally the superpowers edged toward the brink, as with the Cuban missile crisis. But ...
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Sebastian Gorka: North Korea Face-Off ‘Analogous to the Cuban Missile Crisis’

Just minutes into Sebastian Gorka’s appearance on Fox & Friends to discuss escalating nuclear tensions between Washington D.C. and Pyongyang, President Donald Trump issued his latest warning to North ...
The Washington Post

Trump needs creativity to resolve the Iran crisis. The two-week pause is a start.

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media in Morristown, New Jersey, on Friday. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) At a decisive moment in the Cuban missile crisis, when some top officials ...