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 ...

He buys books on the Cuban revolution from the bookshop of his hotel, the Nacional de Cuba hotel in Havana, which once served as Castro’s HQ during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. He drinks a ...

Militiamen trained in the Escambray mountains while superpowers tested each other’s resolve. The background in this composite image is from a U-2 photo of Cuba ...

This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Narrator: In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew a corrupt right-wing dictatorship, and took power in Cuba.

Tensions intensified between Cuba and the United States in October 1962 as they appear destined to plunge the planet in global war Need a New Organ? Surgeon Anthony Atala Sees a Future Where You ...

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... an American spy plane on a mission over Cuba fell off the radar. Robert Caro, Writer: You hear the ...