President Kennedy’s 1962 map of military targets during the Cuban missile crisis goes up for auction, reminding us how close the world came to nuclear war. CNN values your feedback 1.

These developments have led to comparisons with the Cuban Missile Crisis, a 13-day standoff between the US and the Soviet Union that could have led to war. This month marks the 60th anniversary of ...

October marks 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, when the US and USSR were on the brink of nuclear war. Historians and experts warn that the war in Ukraine is presenting similar dangers.

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 nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...

Politics; October 28, 2022; The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war.

In October it will be 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, which has been called the most dangerous crisis in recorded history. The Soviet Union had secretly placed missiles in a base in Cuba ...

Six decades before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, there was the Cuban Missile Crisis, the first showdown between nuclear powers that historians say ...

Cuban missile crisis: 3 key facts you may have missed in history class Over 13 days beginning on Oct. 16, 1962, the U.S. and Soviet Union were at the brink of a nuclear conflict.

And it was all must-see TV as the world watched two superpowers plow their way through what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, 13 days that shook the world with the U.S. and the U.S.S.R ...

I was born during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, so it is rather disturbing that 60 years later the world is once again preoccupied with threats of nuclear annihilation.