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

Runs will be hard to come by, but if Great Britain can carry a lead into the ninth inning they’ll have a big arm ready.

October 27, 1962 becomes the most perilous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. As misunderstandings multiply, aircraft are shot ...

Historian Serhii Plokhy explains why the Kremlin’s nuclear proliferation has begun a dangerous new era of mutually assured ...

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 ...

After World War II, the former Allied powers quickly became rivals, divided by ideology, economics, and competing visions for global influence. As tensions rose, the United States surged ahead in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop it, these submarines would have been operating just off American shores.

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 ...

Defense cooperation agreements between the United States and Northern European countries pose a direct threat to Russia’s ...

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 ...