This information was omitted from the video mainly because we wanted to focus solely on the Cuban people and Cuban politics and we felt that if we ventured too far into the overall geopolitical ...

And even after six decades there is an important lesson to be learned. The story is familiar to most of our more seasoned readers. In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, Cuba's communist ...

What a delicious commentary on the Cold War days and more recent doomsdays (“Memories from the end of the world,” Oct. 14)! I, too, recall the “ends of the world” including the Cold War, the Cuban ...

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 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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, ...

For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union hung over humanity — and occasionally the superpowers edged toward the brink, as with the Cuban missile crisis. But ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...