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The Voodoo Jet That Captured the Cuban Missile Crisis From the Sky
With Soviet missiles pointed at the U.S., the RF-101 Voodoo flew critical low-altitude missions across hostile Cuban terrain.
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Cuban diplomats eye Switzerland in bid to ease US economic pressure
As tensions rise again between Cuba and the US, Cuban diplomats are quietly looking to Switzerland to help restore a ...
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CIA had ‘ties with Oswald’ before JFK assassination: WaPo
Three months before JFK’s assassination, the CIA-backed group known as DRE (short for Student Revolutionary Directorate) ...
The CIA reveals more of its connections to Lee Harvey Oswald
Newly released documents confirm that an agent in Miami oversaw a Cuban student group that interacted with Oswald in the ...
Trinity, 80 Years Later, Still Threatens a “Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.
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Cognitive collapse and the nuclear codes: When leaders lose control
A shocking study reveals that many leaders of nuclear-armed nations—including US presidents and Israeli prime ministers—were ...
Health-impaired world leaders raise nuclear war fears, study suggests
Many former leaders of the world's nine nuclear-armed nations were impaired by health conditions while in office, raising ...
The 13 Presidents with the Highest IQ Scores
It takes a lot of brainpower to run a country—see how the top presidents stack up! How smart are U.S. presidents anyway? Just how smart do you have to be to lead an entire nation? Dean Simonton, a ...
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The Al Merenda band playing the Shoals, Great Kills, in 1946. From the left, Merenda (trumpet), Charlie Schaumberg (piano), ...