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 ...

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America is on the brink of a new Cuban Missile Crisis — this time in space — as Russia develops nuclear anti-satellite armaments, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner said.

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.

For 13 tense days, nuclear war seemed not just possible, but likely. This video walks you through the crisis, the key decisions, and the razor-thin margin by which catastrophe was avoided.

CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) demonstrators protesting against the United States' handling of the Cuban missile crisis, Whitehall, London, 27th October 1962. They are holding a banner ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a nerve-wracking 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 when nuclear Soviet missiles were installed in Cuba, just 90 miles away from U ...

Next week marks 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis — the 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union widely regarded as the closest we ever came to global nuclear war.

The Cuban missile crisis was the moment during the Cold War when the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war. Read Joe Biden doctor's full statement on ...

During the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, the men who ran the affairs of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba were locked in a titanic struggle that tested their resolve and moral ...

WORLD NEWS What was the Cuban Missile Crisis and why is it important? Over a fortnight-long period in late 1962, the US and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear conflict amid a Cold ...

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.