The Cuban Missile Crisis provided some of the most tense moments in American history, and MacDill Air Force Base played a ...

"He was arguing for airstrikes on the missile sites." Robert Kennedy also maintained that "invasion was an alternative ... Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, published last ...

The Americans also sent through this map ... avert the crisis. This clip is from the series Hunting for History. A typical question which historians debate is how serious the Cuban Missile ...

Six decades before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, there was the Cuban Missile Crisis ... intentionally wanted one. History shows that there ...

says UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 25, 1962 (UPI) -- The United States stood firm today on its demand that the Soviet nuclear missile build ... negotiations on the Cuban crisis, held his first ...

In 1962, the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis––a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union––could end in nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...