A U.S. Air Force surveillance flight over Cuba in October 1962 turned up evidence of what U.S. officials had feared: the Soviet Union was installing nuclear-armed missiles on the island. The discovery ...

The United States has been close to war a number of times, but 63 years ago was the closest this country has ever gotten to nuclear war. President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation in a national ...

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 ...

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest to nuclear war. The conventional wisdom is that decision-making occurred “with ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...

It was the first ship to visit the North Pole and participated in the Cuban missile crisis blockade. Nautilus is now an exhibit at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. On January 17, ...

The growing security dilemmas and escalating tensions in the Baltic region are gradually pushing the world towards a potential nuclear confrontation, or a third world war. The Russo-Ukraine war has ...