In the 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, new information has come out that sheds light on the events of October 1962. Here are three key things that you may have missed in history class ...

For 13 days in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of nuclear annihilation. This is the true story of the closest we ...

On October 28, 1962—that dramatic day exactly ... sustained the sacred myth of the Cuban missile crisis. Early memoirs from former officials such as Theodore Sorensen, among others, withheld ...

Languages: English. October 1962 is widely known as a period of time when nuclear tensions were heightened during the Cuban Missile Crisis; however, many have wondered if tensions are the same now ...

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.

Throughout that crisis, Pye Chamberlayne, Jr. was at the White House. He knows the story of the tense Cuban days well. Pye Chamberlayne: "On the night of October 22nd, President Kennedy made what ...

University of Virginia Miller Center presidential recordings program chair Marc Selverstone discussed the global circumstances leading into the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. October 1962 was a ...

He drew a parallel between the Cuban Missile Crisis ... the US stock market bottomed seven days into that two-week crisis in October 1962, and recouped most of its losses before the actual ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. For two tense weeks from October 16 to October 29, 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear war.

October 2024 marks the 62nd anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those 13 days were the closest the world has come to nuclear war. Wartime decision-making is always difficult and fraught with ...

In October 1962, the United States and the ... Six decades later, the war in Ukraine has produced an echo of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Continuing a policy of serial escalation, NATO supplied ...