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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost had a nuclear conflict with ...

The ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has prompted repeated comparisons to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although it's debatable how similar the two ...

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 ...