https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

I received your message of 27 October and I am grateful for your appreciation of the responsibility you bear for world peace and security. The Soviet government has ordered the dismantling of ...

The trajectory of a crisis depends on three resources: power, determination, and information. Power is the obvious variable. Most of the time both sides have a fair grasp of the distribution of power.

Khrushchev was under criticism from his own ... Although the Berlin Wall had stemmed the flow of refugees, the rhetoric used by Kennedy and other Western leaders criticising the Wall was taking ...

23rd October Kennedy receives a letter from Khrushchev saying that the Soviet ships will not stop at the blockade, but will force their way through. 24th October Despite Khrushchev’s ‘tough ...