American President John F. Kennedy was under pressure to stand up to the communist Soviet Union. This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...

Though these ideas were approved by military leaders, the operation was ultimately rejected by President Kennedy, who ...

Promising a new generation of leadership, John F. Kennedy stated he would guide the nation out of the so-called “conservative rut.” Challenges: The arms race with the Soviet Union continued and ...

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

W. Norton & Company. May, Ernest R. and Philip Zelikow (eds) (2002) The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Morgenstern, Oskar, and ...

But the 'Who shot JFK?' question fits the Trump narrative about a "deep state" hiding secrets from the American population.

President Trump has instructed security organisations to create plans for the release of these files. The announcement has ...

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes weren’t just possible, but actively planned for. So what can words that ...

On October 22, 1962, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy addressed ... Relive, through images, key moments of the Cuban missile crisis, an event often seen as the culmination of the conflict.