President John F. Kennedy consulted the map – which shows dozens of potential military targets across Cuba – as he was considering whether to launch a US attack during the Cuban missile crisis.

In southeastern Cuba, El Salao features a large circularly disposed antenna array (CDAA) capable of detecting signals from 3,000 to 8,000 nautical miles away [3,452 to 9,206 miles].

(CNN) -- An old map of Cuba is up for auction in Boston -- but it's much more than a map. It's a historic artifact from some of the darkest days of the Cold War, when Washington and Moscow reached ...