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 ...

Cuba and the Soviet Union were locked in a standoff with the U.S. at the height of the Cold War. Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded.

As the tensions of the Missile Crisis escalated, Castro wrote Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev urging him to use the missiles and to sacrifice Cuba if necessary. Unbeknownst to the Cuban leader ...

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 ...

When the Cold War ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, it greatly reduced the threat of global nuclear war.

The early 1980s saw a resurgence of Cold War tensions to levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Amidst worsening relations between the West and the Soviet bloc, new nuclear weapons were ...

Summers said that the U.S. relationship with Russia at the start of the Cold War was dangerous and led to “catastrophic outcomes” like the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Kennedy’s political career played out through the Cold War ... of foreign policy: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the closest the world has come to nuclear war. On October 15, American ...