At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, Eastern Daylight Time, the American blockade of Cuba becomes effective. 25 Russian ships are en route to Cuba on what may be a collision course in more than one ...

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.

By the time the Cuban missile crisis hatched in October, the book had sold over 250,000 copies and was still on the New York Times bestseller list, where it would remain for nearly a year and earn ...

On October 27, 1962, the 12th day of the Cuban missile crisis, a bellicose and rattled Fidel Castro asked Nikita Khrushchev, his patron, to destroy America. “I believe that the imperialists ...

Back then, many of the United State’s air defenses were positioned to ward off potential attacks from the Soviets via the North Pole, but thanks to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. realized it ...