On October 24, 1962, the US naval blockade of Cuba officially begins, and to the world it looks like the decisive showdown.

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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 ...

For nearly fifty years, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for global influence without ever fighting directly. This video traces the key moments of the Cold War — from the Berlin Airlift ...

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 ...

Gen. Charles de Gaulle, a French hero and statesman who did not lack for self-esteem, once stated, “When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.” In October 1962, after U.S. charges that the ...

Delegates raise their hands in a vote of 19-1 approving the United State' decision to take steps against Cuba, during a meeting of the Organization of American States, called by President Kennedy, to ...

Foreword / Peter Almond -- Introduction. Armageddon in retrospect: "carrying the fire" of the Cuban Missile Crisis into the twenty-first century -- Cast of characters. Three leaders/three crises -- ...

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 ...