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

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

As soon as he took office, Kennedy became increasingly worried about turning the Cold War into a hot one, resulting in nuclear catastrophe. Nikita Khrushchev continued to aid in the spread of ...

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Pie Chamberlain: The great showman of the East, Nikita Khrushchev ... global showdown before President Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis. In May of 1964, Khrushchev announced that Communism ...