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.

Lessons learned from Cuban Missile Crisis, not so much in South Asia Just about anyone with the slightest connection to the Cuban Missile Crisis 53 years ago has penned their recollections ...

Let us briefly recap the course of the Cuban missile crisis. In October 1962, U2 spy planes spotted Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles being installed in Cuba. Kennedy mounted a naval blockade of the ...

Photo from October 1962 showing a Cuban Army anti-aircraft battery, enacted during the missile crisis between the former Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States. He urged that priority attention ...

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 ...

President John F. Kennedy (far right) meets with military advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, Oct. 16, 1962. Photo: Getty Images The world is at the start of a new, undeclared nuclear arms race.