Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the seasoned ...

As the Cold War intensified, both the United States and the Soviet Union raced to expand their nuclear arsenals and secure ...

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 -- ...

Ted reviews a historical non-fiction book by Jeff Shaara and a novel by Kristin Hannah. Ted reviews two different books in this episode. Jeff Shaara's The Shadow of War, gives new perspective to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis. Kennedy designated John J. McCloy, whom he previously had appointed ...

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 ...