would be well within range of these missiles. Within two days of the latest Cuban threat, President Kennedy formed a special advisory group (Executive Committee of the National Security Council or ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...

Kennedy also sent a letter to Khrushchev urging his government not to take action that would "widen or deepen this already grave crisis ... Missile site construction began that summer. US-backed ...

What did analysts find in the recon photographs from the Cuban Missile Crisis? http://j.mp/RwFMbj Former CIA analyst Dino Brugioni was one of the first to spot ...

The downing of Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane in 1960, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Yom Kippur War in 1973—Brugioni played a significant, behind-the-scenes role in each of these historic events.

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes ...

TASS/. The current international tensions are posing more risks to the world than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, while Washington’s opportunistic policy has been escalating things, Juan Sanchez ...

Chinese military expert Song Zhongping said that the deployment of US missiles in the Asia-Pacific ... that triggered the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Global Times newspaper has said.

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

What did analysts find in the recon photographs from the Cuban Missile Crisis? http://j.mp/RwFMbj Former CIA analyst Dino Brugioni was one of the first to spot ...

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...