and eventually the nuclear missiles that would ignite the 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962. Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

In October 1962, during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet submarine B-59, armed with a nuclear torpedo, was stationed near Cuba under a U.S. naval blockade. When detected, U.S. forces ...

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the captain of a Soviet submarine assumed that war had broken out. After the Soviet Union secretly placed nuclear missiles in Cuba--at the throat of the ...

Cuba and the Soviet Union were locked in a standoff with the U.S. at the height of the Cold War. Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded.

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet ... break the news of the ...