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 ...

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. The world held ...

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 ...

In the tense 13‑day crisis ... Cuban missile crisis is misleading or erroneous. But this was the rendition of events that the Kennedy administration fed to a credulous press; this was the ...

Kennedy’s speech marked the public beginning of the Cuban missile crisis ... have helped address the long history of U.S. actions that had led to the crisis and might have laid the foundation ...

Kennedy as he sorted out the prospect of nuclear war with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October ... and others drives a moment of history home, and has to rank among the ...