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 ...
New Delhi: Miscalculation, misinformation and misperceptions in the fall of 1962 almost brought the two superpowers of the time, the US and the USSR, to the brink of nuclear conflict, as the sandy ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The tension between the United States and Cuba began decades ago. Experts said that US policy has focussed on the Western ...
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 ...