In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a standoff that became the closest we have ever come to a nuclear exchange. This followed after the United States stationed ...

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 ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction ... How did Kennedy break the news of the missile sites on Cuba to the American people? "Good evening, my fellow citizens ...