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The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
The Cuban missile crisis was the moment during the Cold War when the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union ...
The implications of mining uranium revived my childhood fears about nuclear annihilation that had been spawned during the Cuban missile crisis. The province did record a boom in uranium exploration ...
Then, months later, American jets were seen flying with a new missile loadout. The fight was the first successful naval engagement of an enemy drone with an air-to-air missile. It showed what was ...
A timestamp indicates the video was taken Jan. 31 in Philadelphia. "Looks more like a missile hitting rather than a plane," reads the text at the bottom of the video. "Planes don't fall like that.
Yet, in the absence of an existential wake-up call like the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Asia-Pacific has failed to create political and security structures capable of reducing nuclear risks.
But as premiums rise and some regions become uninsurable, it could have a cascading effect that could lead to a financial crisis, says Gary Yohe, Huffington Foundation professor emeritus of ...
The White House’s new blueprints to construct the world’s first space-based missile defense shield could become part of a greater master plan to push for reductions in the atomic weapons ...
Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing the US and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. It was during ...
SYDNEY — North Korea’s test launch of a “strategic” underwater-launched cruise missile within a week of President Donald Trump’s inauguration brought back into the spotlight a key ...
The biggest loss of life was in the northeastern province of Kharkiv where at least five people were killed and 38 injured Tuesday morning after a Russian missile struck the city of Izium ...