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In today’s highly charged political environment, in which a president’s handling of international crises, however competent or inept, is immediately subject to hyperbole and sanctification by ...

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 ...

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 20, 1962, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched simultaneous offensives in the western sector (Ladakh) and across the McMahon Line in the eastern sector (Arunachal Pradesh). After a ...

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten, high-speed low-level and dangerous recon role during a time the world was on the brink. On Oct. 14, 1962, United States ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...

Tomorrow will mark the thirteenth day of what future historians might well dub the “Iranian nuclear missile crisis.” Set off by the overwhelming Israeli air campaign against Iran begun on June 13, the ...

Renata Keller received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world ...