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 ...

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 ...

NOVA: What was your role in the Cuban missile crisis? Brugioni ... Now, 65 feet was just too long for the SS-3 [a medium-range ballistic missile, or MRBM]; the SS-3 was about 52 feet [less ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis is most commonly conveyed as the ... first-strike threat posed by the presence of U.S. Jupiter Medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM) in Turkey. Operation Anadyr ...

Chinese experts have compared Washington's intention to deploy new medium-range missile launchers ... circumstances that triggered the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Global Times newspaper has ...

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 ...

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a standoff that became the closest we have ever come to a nuclear exchange. This followed after the United States stationed ...

Skip to content viewer section. Many contradictions emerge from the nine published accounts of the confrontation between the Soviet submarine B-59 and American antisubmarine-warfare units during the ...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the Cuban Missile Crisis with new approaches. For this purpose, we analyse this crisis in two static and dynamic approaches. In the static approach, we ...