The Cuban Missile Crisis provided some of the most tense moments in American history, and MacDill Air Force Base played a crucial role during those 13 days. Dramatic video shows Royal Navy warship ...

In fact, the Soviets were so invested in this program—and the Americans were so worried about its potential threat—that a second Cuban Missile Crisis almost erupted over the possibility that ...

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten, high-speed low-level and dangerous recon role during a time the world was on the brink. On Oct. 14, 1962, United ...

Over the next dozen days, the crisis deepened. Nikita Khrushchev stalled while the missile site’s construction continued and Kennedy stood by his order to the US Navy to “quarantine” Cuba.

Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory began engineering what would become the longest-serving and. Commentary; Members; Russo-Ukrainian ... In ...

During the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, the men who ran the affairs of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba were locked in a titanic struggle that tested their resolve and moral ...

Sept. 13, 2011— -- President Kennedy, a student of history and President Lincoln, joked darkly after his triumph in the Cuban Missile Crisis that it might be a good night to go to the theater.