The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

When President Biden compared Russia's nuclear threat against Ukraine to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, it highlighted just how much that Cold War showdown continues to shape our collective psyche.

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that chance rather than characters shaped the clash between ...

Arkhipov's restraint and judgment are credited with averting a global catastrophe during one of the tensest moments of the Cold War. The Cuban Missile Crisis is most commonly conveyed as the story ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis came close to unleashing nuclear ... The event touched off an especially tense period of the Cold War. Three weeks after the crash, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov ...

Explore the events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and hear from some of the actual ... that led the world to the brink of nuclear war. Submariners from both sides talk about the conflict ...

Everyone has been left baffled after learning the nuclear launch code America used during the Cuban Missile Crisis and part of the Cold War. From 1962 to 1977, the passcode intended to keep any ...

Dive into history as we explore the Cold War landmarks of Havana ... the places where pivotal moments unfolded during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Join me on this unforgettable journey!

Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory began engineering what would ...

The respective visits came at a time of rising tensions in the Cold War, 14 years ... White House when the missile crisis came to a head two years later. How the Cuban Missile Crisis brought ...

Russian and U.S. diplomats say their diplomatic relations are worse even that during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ... reminiscent of the events of the Cold War related to the deployment of ...