The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest ...

It’s hard to attribute anything but coincidence to the fact that Cuban President Raúl Castro issued a major immigration reform on Tuesday, Oct. 16, which was the 50th anniversary of the start of the ...

In this video, we examine the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of Cuba itself. We explore how Fidel Castro and the Cuban ...

And even after six decades there is an important lesson to be learned. The story is familiar to most of our more seasoned readers. In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, Cuba's communist ...

During a panic-filled October fifty years ago, the world teetered on the brink of annihilation. Reports that the U.S.S.R aimed to set up secret missile bases in Cuba—the Communist-run Caribbean nation ...

Both the process and outcomes of public decision-making are key to the successful operation of government. Asking the right questions; accurately accessing the information available; surrounding ...

A year before the Soviets moved nuclear missiles onto Cuba, Moscow detonated the most powerful bomb ever tested, a moment ...

Smithsonian revisits the Cuban Missile Crisis, which unfolded 50 years ago this month, in this short documentary about the reconnaissance images that sparked the conflict. Dino Brugioni was the Chief ...

The world was going to end. That was all you knew, or thought you knew, on October 16, 1962. The news came on the TV that day. It had to do with Russia and Cuba and nuclear missiles 90 miles away from ...

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President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis. Kennedy designated John J. McCloy, whom he previously had appointed ...