The Destroyer Kennedy earned $4K in grants to keep it ship-shape, while a solemn event linked USS Mass sailors past, present ...

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez expressed gratitude to Russia for its unconditional support in the Cuban people's struggle against the blockade and for excluding Cuba from the list of countries that allege ...

Luis Arce pointed out that his country supports "the call by most states demanding the immediate and unconditional lifting" of the trade embargo against Cuba, which the US ignores ...

Eastern Daylight Time, the American blockade of Cuba becomes effective. 25 Russian ships are en route to Cuba on what may be ...

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten, high-speed low-level and dangerous recon role during a time the world was on the brink. Backyard Threat On Oct. 14 ...

U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, marking the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis on this day in 1962. What ...

Ultimately, the crisis subsided when the Soviet ships carrying the additional missiles turned back at the blockade without incident and Khrushchev agreed to remove the existing missiles from Cuba.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 1962 (UPI) -- The United States cast anxious eyes today on Russia's latest Cuban aid maneuver -- construction of a "fishing port" that is expected to become a Red naval base ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred over 13 unnerving days in October 1962 and brought the U.S. and Soviet Union alarmingly close to the precipice of a full-scale nuclear war.

In this so-called Cuban Missile Crisis in space, the U.S. must carefully balance deterring a reckless Russia while avoiding actions that could provoke catastrophic consequences.

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