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.

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes ...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War, the U.S. reportedly made a shocking “mistake” regarding its nuclear bomb launch codes. According to a former military officer responsible for ...

Cruise missiles of past wars have meant the death of the delivery pilot. "A One Way Trip To Death" explores the history of how this lethal assault weapon came about, and how it played an impressive ...

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has left tens of thousands of dead, displaced millions and triggered the biggest crisis in relations between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile ...

During a crisis, the news media and voting public will judge the actions of those who hold or aspire to office.

The Vatican’s three-way dialogue with Cuba and the United States goes back further and reached its most critical moment at the peak of the Cuban missile crisis when, in the fall of 1962 ...