Skip to content viewer section. Many contradictions emerge from the nine published accounts of the confrontation between the Soviet submarine B-59 and American antisubmarine-warfare units during the ...
Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union through a willingness ... would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's ...
Over the past 80 years, the threat of such nuclear annihilation was perhaps never greater than during the Cuban missile crisis ... the U.S. and the communist Soviet Union began almost immediately ...
Summary and Key Points: During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, a Soviet submarine, B-59, came dangerously close to launching a nuclear torpedo at U.S. forces due to relentless pressure ...
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 ...
Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union through a willingness ... would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's ...