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.

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Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

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But, three years later, in October 1962, Khrushchev's decision to put Soviet missiles in Cuba pushed the world to the brink of nuclear conflict in what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"If I had behaved as recklessly as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, I would have earned myself an extended stay in the brig or ...

On April 17, 1961, the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro’s Cuba government began. Poor ...

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The following is the April 14, 2025, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control: ...

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Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly said he wants to end the "bloodbath" of the ...