The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...
Moore, Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and ... 24 October 1962, doc. 2 in “The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Submarines and the Risk of Nuclear War,” ed. Thomas ...
In 1962 the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis, a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, could end in a nuclear war. It was a two-week battle of wills between ...
U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, marking the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis on this day in 1962.
The most dangerous encounter in the history of the world and the Cold War rivalry ... the brink of nuclear war—and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 exemplifies how deterrence theory and psychological manipulation shaped Cold War diplomacy. The crisis revealed how perceptions of strength, credibility, and resolve ...
ABILENE, Texas — Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile ... role in that crisis, and he says it wasn't the only time we came close to World War III.
It did not then and, since the end of the Cold War, has never threatened to do ... before unanticipated events spark another full blown Cuban Missile Crisis? David H. Rundell is the author of ...
Both Russian and US diplomats say relations between the world’s two largest nuclear powers have only been worse during the ...
Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union ... The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most ...
Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union ... The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most ...