More than 63 years ago, the world narrowly escaped a nuclear third world war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A veteran, who ...
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 ...
A map prepared by the Defense Department in 1962 shows potential ranges of Soviet ballistic missiles from Cuba. Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis briefing materials/John F. Kennedy ...
Delegates raise their hands in a vote of 19-1 approving the United State' decision to take steps against Cuba, during a meeting of the Organization of American States, called by President Kennedy, to ...
As Russian drones stray across borders and American resolve falters, old Cold War reflexes return. And as deterrence weakens ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, ...
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 ...
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The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis
(THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war by staring down Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev over the Cuban ...
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