Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction ... How did Kennedy break the news of the missile sites on Cuba to the American people? "Good evening, my fellow citizens ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...

Vladimir Putin is rattling sabres with a veiled threat to spark a new Cuban Missile Crisis by suggesting he could deploy ...

The Vatican’s three-way dialogue with Cuba and the United States goes back further and reached its most critical moment at the peak of the Cuban missile crisis when, in the fall of 1962 ...

as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped facilitate as part of a three-way dialogue with Washington and Havana that dates back to the Cuban missile crisis. Cuba said this week that it was ...