known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. At no time in history had the Cold War come so close to World War Three. The photos Heyser had taken revealed Soviet SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile erector ...

Mallory Atkinson is a modern-day homicide cop who got bumped back in time to 1869 Scotland, where she woke up in the body of Catriona Mitchell, a housemaid. That happened (more plausibly than you ...

There are only two instances of major direct clashes on the ground between nuclear powers — the Sino-Soviet border clashes of 1969 and the India-Pakistan Kargil conflict of 1999. The Cuban Missile ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

Many analysts have pointed out that India’s Operation Sindoor was a clear message that Pakistan can no longer use its nuclear capability as a shield. What is your view?

Humanity has lived with nuclear weapons for so long — 80 years, this year — without destroying itself, that we sometimes take ...

In the Cuban Missile Crisis, then-president John F. Kennedy interpreted the Soviet shootdown of an American U-2 over Cuba as a deliberate Soviet decision to escalate. In fact, Soviet troops shot ...

Robert Primrose, Jr., shares more than just a name with his father and hero, who died in 1964, when Primrose was just six years old. Major Robert Primrose, Sr., ...

Perhaps the Holy See’s most critical diplomatic initiative came during the peak of the Cuban missile crisis when, in the fall of 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered a secret deployment of ...

unleashing a war that has left hundreds of thousands of soldiers dead and triggering the gravest confrontation between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The Russian leader ...

If you remember the Cuban missile crisis, one of the big things was that both the Soviet Union and the United States learned the same strategic lessons as a nuclear weapon state. In this case ...