Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the men who took us to the edge of unimaginable devastation in the 1960s, will tell the personal and political history of the 1962 Cuban Missile Cr ...
Henry Stewart History on MSN
The Closest We’ve Ever Been to Nuclear War
This documentary explores the two moments in history when the world came seconds away from nuclear war: the 1962 Cuban ...
More than 63 years ago, the world narrowly escaped a nuclear third world war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A veteran, who ...
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 -- ...
Writing a book about your grandfather can be tricky, but Thant Myint-U knew he had to do it: too little was known about U ...
"This book is based on the exhibition "To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis," presented in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery at the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, from October 12, ...
The Trump Administration has undermined its alliances. But history reminds us that the U.S. cannot go it alone.
The United States has been close to war a number of times, but 63 years ago was the closest this country has ever gotten to nuclear war. President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation in a national ...
In today’s highly charged political environment, in which a president’s handling of international crises, however competent or inept, is immediately subject to hyperbole and sanctification by ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback