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The quiet decisions that brought the Cuban missile crisis back from the brink

On October 28, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis reached its tense conclusion — but the public story hid secret negotiations and ...
Yahoo

What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis — the 13-day standoff that almost ended the world

The ongoing war in Ukraine and increasingly escalatory rhetoric from Russia has raised fears of nuclear war. These developments have led to comparisons with the Cuban Missile Crisis, a 13-day standoff ...
FINCHANNEL

Behind the scenes: A look back at the Cuban missile crisis

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest ...
Time

The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50: America and Cuba Still Frozen in 1962

It’s hard to attribute anything but coincidence to the fact that Cuban President Raúl Castro issued a major immigration reform on Tuesday, Oct. 16, which was the 50th anniversary of the start of the ...
TimeGhost on MSN

The Day the Cuban Missile Crisis Nearly Triggered Nuclear War

October 27, 1962 becomes the most perilous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. As misunderstandings multiply, aircraft are shot down, commanders improvise, and both sides edge closer to launching nuclear ...
New Republic

We Never Learned the Key Lesson From the Cuban Missile Crisis

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat last month to “use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people”—an implicit reference to his country’s nuclear arsenal—has prompted ...
The Boston Globe

The most important lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis

It’s been 60 years since our last brush with nuclear suicide. Humanity barely survived that encounter in 1962, known to history as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Never since then has nuclear apocalypse ...
Wall Street Journal

The Real Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The world is at the start of a new, undeclared nuclear arms race. In August 2019, the U.S. and Russia officially abandoned the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by Ronald Reagan and ...
Slate

The Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis Are Actually Pretty Useless Right Now

Just in time for its 60 th anniversary, the Cuban missile crisis is trending big time. President Biden warned last week that Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine portends “the ...
WPLG

Experts, activist weigh in on ‘staggering’ Cuban migration crisis

MIAMI — Amid an onslaught of migrant landings to start 2023, the Cuban exodus has reached crisis proportions, experts and officials say, and it’s showing no signs of abating. Hundreds of Cuban ...
Catholic News Agency

Cuban crisis must come to an end, says Catholic cardinal

The leader of the Catholic Church in Cuba, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, released an interview on Monday which not only affirmed the autonomous nature of the Catholic Church in Cuba but also called for the ...