A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

Four months after the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna, tensions escalated on October 30, 1961, when the Soviets tested a 50-megaton nuclear bomb in the Arctic. “Khrushchev was eager ...

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During their Vienna Summit, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev aggressively challenged Kennedy, particularly on Berlin and nuclear disarmament. The confrontation left Kennedy shaken, later calling ...

Kennedy, and the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna. Read more: Trump and Zelensky: when face-to-face diplomacy goes wrong it can be disastrous – especially if the whole world is ...

which followed a meeting between the young president and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. John F. Kennedy visited the UK in (Alamy) The meeting during the height of the Cold War was ...

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But perhaps more significant was the visit of Mr Eisenhower’s successor John F Kennedy in June 1961, which followed a meeting between the young president and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna.