The crisis that developed over Cuba in October 1962 almost resulted in nuclear war and worldwide destruction. The USA discovered that the USSR was constructing missile sites for nuclear weapons in ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Many contradictions emerge from the nine published accounts of the confrontation between the Soviet submarine B-59 and American ...

We'll immediately bomb that missile site that took out the plane ... these are Russians on Cuba -- nuclear war. Slate: Day 13. October 28, 1962 Radio Moscow (archival audio): This is radio ...

We'll immediately bomb that missile site that took out the plane ... these are Russians on Cuba -- nuclear war. Slate: Day 13. October 28, 1962 Radio Moscow (archival audio): This is radio ...

Missiles are flying everywhere these days, it seems. China just launched its first ICBM test into the Pacific Ocean since ...

An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Castro in July 1962 and ... turn back. 25 October US spy planes report increased building work at the missile launch sites ...

In October 1962, Soviet Russia tried to install weapons on an island in the Caribbean, an event that became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The weapons could have destroyed the United States ...

"We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis." The 13-day event in October 1962 put the two main superpowers - the Soviet Union and the US - on a ...