Members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) march during a protest against the U.S.'s action over the Cuban missile crisis October 28, 1962 in London, United Kingdom. Former Russian and ...

Allison says confrontation with Iran is like a Cuban missile crisis in slow motion. But the big difference is 50 years ago there were only two major players - the U.S. and the Soviets.

As the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis approaches, we can expect the usual media plaudits for President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and the so-called members of ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the dispute over proposed U.S. missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe has similarities to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.

Tens of thousands of fighting men sprang into action because of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviets alone sent 40,000 men to Cuba, on eighty vessels, to unpack and operationalize all the ...

AP. FILE - President John F. Kennedy, right, confers with his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, at the White House in this Oct.1, 1962, file photo during the Cuban missile crisis.

In 1962, the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis––a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union––could end in nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...

"Pages of history" features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News and the Evening Journal. Oct. 29, 1962, Evening Journal. JFK picks 3 to negotiate Cuban crisis ...

It's been 50 years since the Cuban missile crisis had the U.S. on the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. But the chaos and fear of those days are still alive in the memories of those who ...

For the first time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, America is facing a nuclear confrontation, this time with North Korea. As one of the few remaining members of the Kennedy administration who ...