causing a dangerous international crisis that lasted 13 days, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. At no time in history had the Cold War come so close to World War Three. The photos Heyser had ...

The use of nuclear weapons to end a war worked once, only because a single country possessed them at the time. Today’s ...

Or the steely-eyed young American president, John F. Kennedy, staring down Nikita Khrushchev, demanding Russia remove missile sites from Cuba and sending destroyers into the Atlantic to interdict ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

Perhaps the Holy See's most critical diplomatic initiative came during the peak of the Cuban missile crisis when, in the fall of 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered a secret deployment of ...

Perhaps the Holy See’s most critical diplomatic initiative came during the peak of the Cuban missile crisis when, in the fall of 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered a secret ...

Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ... avenues for crisis management. A natural extension to the exchange of data would be instituting a system of notification of ballistic missile launches.

More than six decades after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the most nerve-wracking episodes of the Cold War, new ...

Rodney Warwick on the crisis ... The Cuban Missile Crises constituted that historical moment when superpower tensions reached their most dangerous levels. American and Soviet leaders, President John ...

You’re not in a good position. And you don’t want a Cuban missile crisis to happen with Taiwan as the island and you in the role of Nikita Khrushchev. So I think this is a moment for detente ...