With Soviet missiles pointed at the U.S., the RF-101 Voodoo flew critical low-altitude missions across hostile Cuban terrain.

Historians now say it was behind-the-scenes compromise rather than a high-stakes game of chicken that resolved the faceoff, that both Washington and Moscow wound up winners and that the crisis ...

Soviet cargo ship, the Fizik Kurchatov, carrying six canvas covered missile transporters with missiles, leaves Cuba en route for Russia during the Cuban missile crisis November 12, 1962.

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, historians now say it was behind-the-scenes compromise rather than a high-stakes game of chicken that resolved the faceoff, ...

He used the crisis as a learning experience to clarify what he called the "rules of the precarious status quo." After October 1962, neither superpower dared surprise the other with provocative actions ...

October marks 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, when the US and USSR were on the brink of nuclear war. Historians and experts warn that the war in Ukraine is presenting similar dangers.

The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory. By Sheldon M. Stern. Buy Book. The Other Missiles Of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, And The Jupiters, 1957-1963. By Philip Nash. Buy Book ...

Politics; October 28, 2022; The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war.

REALITY: It's true the missile crisis was full of tense moments. On Oct. 27, a U.S. warship dropped depth charges over a nuclear-armed Soviet sub and the Soviets shot down a U-2 spy plane over Cuba.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was 13 days, really intense, a lot of public messaging and public signaling about what was going on. In Ukraine, this is a drawn-out conflict.

Six decades before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, there was the Cuban Missile Crisis, the first showdown between nuclear powers that historians say ...