Vladimir Putin is rattling sabres with a veiled threat to spark a new Cuban Missile Crisis by suggesting he could deploy weapons of mass destruction globally to needle the West, experts have ...

Inside the crates were MiG-15s and -19s, the first weapons in a buildup in Cuba that included Soviet fighters, bombers, radar, anti-aircraft batteries, and eventually the nuclear missiles that ...

Michael Dobbs, Writer: Kennedy repeats his demand for Khrushchev to pull out, says that time is of the essence, if Khrushchev pulls his missiles out of Cuba, the U.S. will over the next few weeks ...

Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev after they agreed to withdraw nuclear missiles from Turkey and Cuba, respectively. Lee pointed out that the US stock market bottomed seven days into ...

According to our ambassador, certain Cubans feel that the Cuban people would prefer a different kind of statement, one that would not deal with the withdrawal of the missiles. It is possible that ...

He made a televised address to the American people on 22 October and told them about the missiles on Cuba and the naval blockade that had been put in place. How did Kennedy break the news of the ...