Sixty years ago, we survived a nuclear standoff between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev that inspired literature on crisis management and crisis avoidance regarding the Cuban missile crisis.

More GETTY Newsweek spoke to a number of historians with expertise in the Cuban missile crisis, to find out what that previous near-brush with nuclear conflict can tell us about the current situation.

October 2024 marks the 62nd anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those 13 days were the closest the world has come to nuclear war. Wartime decision-making is always difficult and fraught with ...

To many Americans, he is best remembered as the leader during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. He agreed to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba in exchange for President John F. Kennedy’s ...

He told Schlesinger to “tell Adlai that I never talked to Charlie or any other reporter about the Cuban crisis, and that this piece does not represent my views.” In truth, Kennedy had talked ...

October 1962 is widely known as a period of time when nuclear tensions were heightened during the Cuban Missile Crisis ... headlines of Britain's daily newspapers Oct. 23 announcing President ...

Arthur I. Cyr published an article on the Cuban missile crisis in the autumn 2022 “Parameters,” the U.S. Army War College journal. Trump commutes federal life sentence of founding Gangster ...

Mike Turner (R-OH), this time in an appearance on Bloomberg’s Balance of Power, treated viewers to a lesson on the continuing relevance of the Cuban Missile Crisis—particularly as it relates ...