Foreword / Peter Almond -- Introduction. Armageddon in retrospect: "carrying the fire" of the Cuban Missile Crisis into the twenty-first century -- Cast of characters. Three leaders/three crises -- ...

The discussion introduced me to the story of the “Gray Ghosts,” a Navy reconnaissance squadron whose low-level flights over Cuba provided critical intelligence during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It also ...

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 ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were at a stand-off for 13 days. U.S. spy planes had discovered construction of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba. The U ...

People watching Pres. John F. Kennedy's TV announcement of Cuban blockade in a department store, 22nd October 1962. (Photo by Ralph Crane//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) People watching Pres. John F ...

The crisis in memory -- The palms of spring -- The missiles of October -- K v. K -- The thorn in the flesh -- The rockets hit home -- Only one will face the bull -- And who will blink? -- No very good ...

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 ...

For 13 days in October of 1962, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war as the U.S. and the Soviet Union feuded over ...