The Cuban Missile Crisis happened ... allowed to continue its journey as it contained no missile building materials. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sent letters to President Kennedy.

Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw their ... the war in Ukraine has produced an echo of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Continuing a policy of serial escalation, NATO ...

MOSCOW, June 8. /TASS/. The granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, died on Thursday after being struck by a suburban train near Moscow ...

The Soviet government has ordered the dismantling of bases and the dispatch of equipment to the U.S.S.R. A few days ago, Havana was shelled, allegedly by Cuban emigres. Yet someone must have armed ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred over 13 unnerving ... stronger and arms shipments to Cuba increasing. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev thought very little of Kennedy and believed the new and ...

New photographs emerged on Oct. 26 showing further missile ... Nikita Khrushchev to host Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba The move was partly an effort to deter the US from attempting another Cuban ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded ... Cuban leader Fidel Castro (top left), Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (bottom left) and U.S. President ...

Pie Chamberlain: The great showman of the East, Nikita Khrushchev is replaced ... before President Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis. In May of 1964, Khrushchev announced that Communism is ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners ... at the peak of the Cuban missile crisis when, in the fall of 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered a secret ...

Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union through a willingness to proceed with caution -- and a gamble that Premier Nikita Khrushchev was just as ...