Cuban Missile Crisis | When the world almost ended Posted: April 8, 2025 | Last updated: April 8, 2025 Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis.

His histories include "Inferno: The World At War, 1939–1945," "Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945–1975" and "Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962." Boston CCTV footage has gone viral, of hooded ...

As the Cuban missile crisis reached its peak over the next few days, low-flying Navy and Air Force pilots conducted more than 100 missions over the island in Operation Blue Moon. While Kennedy and ...

Over 30 people were killed in a Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian city on Sunday, officials said. The strikes hit the heart of the city of Sumy around 10:15 a.m. when people were gathering for ...

An air-raid siren pierced the calm, but there was hardly time to seek cover from the Iskander-M ballistic missile headed for the city at six times the speed of sound. Russia said it was targeting ...

A Russian missile attack on the northeastern Ukrainian ... On Saturday, top diplomats from Russia and Ukraine traded accusations over breaches of a tentative ceasefire agreement brokered by ...

Since the moment President Trump pulled out his tariff charts in the White House Rose Garden last Wednesday ... the market dropped sharply amid the Cuban Missile crisis in 1961 but quickly ...

The U.S. stock market took a sharp dive over the past week ... In contrast, shorter crashes, like those triggered by the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 1960s, were less impactful.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered the worst confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis - which ... later said they lasted over four hours.

However, as tensions rise over trade in the US following President ... the threat posed by the Soviet Union during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis." A spokesperson from the Chinese embassy in ...