The trajectory of a crisis depends on three resources: power, determination, and information. Power is the obvious variable. Most of the time both sides have a fair grasp of the distribution of power.
Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost had a nuclear conflict with ...
On Feb. 12, 1964, a little more than 10 weeks following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a film called Seven Days in May detonated on American movie screens.
Writing in the Times, he suggested that could trigger a confrontation similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The extraordinary warning came as the government scrambles to justify the proposed ...
Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...