Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle ... was unknown during the confrontations and deliberations of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In his book, "Overconfidence and War," Dominic Johnson coins ...

Stephen Kinzer is right in arguing that only back-channel negotiations prevented the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating into all-out nuclear war (“The most important lesson of the Cuban ...

Six decades later, the war in Ukraine has produced an echo of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Continuing a policy of serial escalation, NATO supplied Ukraine with long-range weapons and authorized their ...

causing a dangerous international crisis that lasted 13 days, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. At no time in history had the Cold War come so close to World War Three. The photos Heyser had ...

What become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union ever became of turning hot. 10/25/1962: Navy destroyers at dockside in Key West.