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 ...

Did JFK’s extra-marital affairs risk national security? While some might argue that a president’s private life is irrelevant ...

John Kennedy had long ago learned the lesson ... to withdraw missiles from the Turkish bases. Berlin and the Cuban Missile Crisis were decided quickly, but other situations would not be resolved ...

The USS Enterprise (CVN 65) was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, renowned for its versatility, combat ...

The bomber crews on alert during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis were studying the ... Six days earlier, on October 16, President John F. Kennedy’s Executive Committee had begun to act on ...

He blinked. Not since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 has an American president engaged in such a high-risk, high-stakes game of chicken with the future of his nation and the world. In that lost age ...

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

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

JFK became a public hero in WWII for his actions in the Pacific as Captain of PT-109, but his older brother wasn't so ...