Posted: April 8, 2025 | Last updated: July 11, 2025 Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Allison says confrontation with Iran is like a Cuban missile crisis in slow motion. But the big difference is 50 years ago there were only two major players - the U.S. and the Soviets.

On September 2, 1962, the show became the CBS Evening News and has retained that title to this day. Six months to the day that Cronkite took over the evening news, the Cuban Missile Crisis started.

President John F. Kennedy (far right) meets with military advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, Oct. 16, 1962. Photo: Getty Images The world is at the start of a new, undeclared nuclear arms race.

Lessons learned from Cuban Missile Crisis, not so much in South Asia Just about anyone with the slightest connection to the Cuban Missile Crisis 53 years ago has penned their recollections ...

Photo from October 1962 showing a Cuban Army anti-aircraft battery, enacted during the missile crisis between the former Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States. He urged that priority attention ...

For the first time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, America is facing a nuclear confrontation, this time with North Korea. As one of the few remaining members of the Kennedy administration who ...