This Day in History: Cuban Missile Crisis intensifies on ‘Black Saturday’

Cuban Missile Crisis. In an incident that came to be known as Black Saturday, the U.S. military was placed under DEFCON 2 — ...
MediaPost

Rich Silverstein Revisits Cuban Missile Crisis Through Surreal, AI-Driven Lens

The work is equal parts satire and AI-powered creative lab and reimagines Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro as characters in a ...
The Print on MSN

Cuban missile crisis: 13 stormy days in Oct 1962 when US, USSR came to brink of nuclear conflict

On 16 Oct 1962, Kennedy’s NSA walked into the White House with ‘proof’ of Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. What followed was a ‘naval quarantine’ of the Caribbean nation.
Opinion

A Key Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis? The U.S. Needs Allies

The Trump Administration has undermined its alliances. But history reminds us that the U.S. cannot go it alone.

What happens when AI rewrites the cold war as a Broadway musical?

Rich Silverstein’s new exhibit, 13 Days: The Musical, turns cold war panic into art satire and a test of AI’s creative conscience.
WLRN

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

Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war by ...
The National Interest

Here’s What Would Happen If America Found Nuclear Weapons in Venezuela

If Russia stationed nuclear missiles in Venezuela, the world could find itself in a repeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis—the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Newly-christened “Secretary of ...