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 ...
New Delhi: Miscalculation, misinformation and misperceptions in the fall of 1962 almost brought the two superpowers of the time, the US and the USSR, to the brink of nuclear conflict, as the sandy ...
President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis. Front page of the Evening Journal from Oct. 29, 1962. Kennedy designated ...
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest to nuclear war. The conventional wisdom is that decision-making occurred “with ...
FORTY YEARS AGO this month, President John F. Kennedy was locked in a test of wills with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev over missiles in Cuba. Memorialized in both film and print, the Cuban missile ...
The arrival at Havana harbor this week of three Russian military ships and a nuclear-powered submarine to take part in exercises in the Caribbean should set off alarm in Washington. Officials told ...
President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela. By Michael Crowley ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Many members of the military have vivid memories of key moments. In this week's Stories of Service, we meet a Navy veteran who served in the Korean War and was involved in the ...
The administration’s drug war rhetoric seems like a pretext. But a pretext for what? By Michelle Goldberg Gen. Dan Caine is making the trip as President Trump is said to have approved plans for covert ...