Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory began engineering what would ...

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten, high-speed low-level and dangerous recon ...

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

Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cubans recall how their government ... The weapons were determined to be R-12 (NATO codename: SS-4) medium-range (600 to 1,000 miles) ballistic ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction ... They put major American towns and cities within range of Soviet nuclear missiles. America had already put nuclear missiles ...

This confrontation, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, was sparked by the US ... particularly the provision of long-range weapons, Putin has suggested that Russia may supply nuclear weapons ...

As the Cuban missile crisis reached its peak over the next few ... A more ominous gap concerned the location of the warheads for the 36 medium-range missiles capable of hitting Washington and ...

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 ...

Russia’s barbarous invasion of Ukraine a year ago, and the United States’ steadfast support for the embattled former Soviet ...