a portion of a letter from the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev to President Kennedy dated October 27, 1962, detailing his proposal to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis. Marc ...

A spy photo of a ballistic missile base ... Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev issued a prescient warning for coexistence in a world of nuclear weapons: “Mr. President, the crisis that we have gone ...

Sixty years ago this month, what has become known as the Cuban missile crisis began ... But back in 1962, the motives of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev were more opaque. Why did the Soviet ...

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis ... and the seasoned communist Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The outcome was uncertain.

So much for the gallant Knights of Camelot forcing the Russians’ retreat during the Cuban missile crisis. Apparently ... In his diaries, Khrushchev snickers further: "It would have been ...

Disaster was averted in the Cuban Missile Crisis because Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. President John F. Kennedy both ignored hawks within their respective camps who insisted that ...

Just in time for its 60 th anniversary, the Cuban missile ... Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis.” And just as President John F. Kennedy coaxed Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with a face ...

“I’ve got a guy over there in Moscow who’s in a corner,” President Kennedy mused about Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, “and I don’t want to get him in ...

In 1962, the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban ... missile bases in Cuba, taken on Oct. 23, 1962. On Oct. 28, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita ...

When President Biden compared Russia's nuclear threat against Ukraine to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis ... of Cuba to force Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to remove the missiles.