New reconnaissance photos suddenly changed the course of the Cold War. When U2 images confirmed Soviet missile sites in Cuba ...

It appears that America's leaders have forgotten the value of alliances. In the past few months alone, the United States has threatened neighbors across Latin America, carried out airstrikes on ...

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 ...

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 ...

As tensions between the US and Cuba rise to the highest levels since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the mood was grim at a recent staff meeting at the US Embassy in Havana.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...