Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union through a willingness to proceed with caution -- and a gamble that Premier Nikita Khrushchev was just as ...

Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis ... Nations attempting to resolve the crisis, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sent a coded message to Kennedy through the Soviet Embassy in ...

This might not sound like much, but it was in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course by Marvin Kalb BookBaby, 532 pp. The idea of ...

Only Saturday, construction at the Cuban missile ... Kennedy accepted the Soviet leader's proposals late in the afternoon, rocket removal must be carried out in detail. He said Khrushchev's ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what ... left), Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (bottom left) and U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

The 35-year-old pilot of the downed plane, Major Rudolf Anderson, is considered the sole U.S. combat casualty of the Cuban missile crisis. Throughout the tense stand-off, Khrushchev and Kennedy ...

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a standoff that became the closest we have ever come to a nuclear exchange. This followed after the United States stationed ...

The stock market's trajectory during the Cuban Missile Crisis could provide a template for how investors will respond to President Donald Trump's upcoming reciprocal tariffs, according to Fundstrat ...

Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union through a willingness to proceed with caution -- and a gamble that Premier Nikita Khrushchev was just as ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after ... the Soviet Union and their leader, Nikita Khrushchev. It was an embarrassing failure for Kennedy and the CIA. Kennedy had won the presidential ...

1962's Other Crisis: India and China go to War While often overshadowed by the Cuban Missile Crisis, the conflict still colors relations between the two nations to this day. With the world’s ...