Dino Brugioni probably knows more about analyzing spy photographs than perhaps anyone ... of Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane in 1960, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Yom Kippur War in 1973 ...

A U-2 spy plane, flying as high as 70,000 feet, had already taken grainy photographs that enabled ... offensive weapons in Cuba. As the Cuban missile crisis reached its peak over the next few ...

Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cubans recall how their government prepared them for what it insisted was the conflict’s inevitable end: all-out war with the United States.

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...

Skip to content viewer section. Many contradictions emerge from the nine published accounts of the confrontation between the Soviet submarine B-59 and American antisubmarine-warfare units during the ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of ...