The crisis that developed over Cuba in October 1962 almost resulted in nuclear war and worldwide destruction. The USA discovered that the USSR was constructing missile sites for nuclear weapons in ...

The map showed us the threat faced by the US ... sources in The National Archives at Kew, relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis of the early 1960s. Dr. Sam Caslin from Liverpool University explains ...

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 ...

The downing of Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane in 1960, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Yom Kippur War in 1973—Brugioni played a significant, behind-the-scenes role in each of these historic events.

The purpose of this article is to investigate the Cuban Missile Crisis with new approaches. For this purpose, we analyse this crisis in two static and dynamic approaches. In the static approach, we ...

Challenges: The arms race with the Soviet Union continued and escalated in the Cuban Missile Crisis. John F. Kennedy agreed to a CIA plan which attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro by sending a band of ...