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 ...

The trajectory of a crisis depends on three resources: power, determination, and information. Power is the obvious variable. Most of the time both sides have a fair grasp of the distribution of power.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...