The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction ... They discovered the missile sites in October 1962. They put major American towns and cities within range of Soviet nuclear ...

The Cuban missile crisis was the moment during the Cold War when the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war.

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Many contradictions emerge from the nine published accounts of the confrontation between the Soviet submarine B-59 and American ...

1962's Other Crisis: India and China go to War While often overshadowed by the Cuban Missile Crisis, the conflict still colors relations between the two nations to this day. With the world’s ...

Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the ... The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies.

THE objective of diplomacy is to prevent war, while the purpose of war—whether economic or military—is to win and advance a ...

The downing of Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane in 1960, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Yom Kippur War in 1973—Brugioni played a significant, behind-the-scenes role in each of these historic events.

For 13 days in October of 1962, the world teetered on the brink ... Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear ...