It appears that America's leaders have forgotten the value of alliances. In the past few months alone, the United States has threatened neighbors across Latin America, carried out airstrikes on ...

New Delhi: Miscalculation, misinformation and misperceptions in the fall of 1962 almost brought the two superpowers of the time, the US and the USSR, to the brink of nuclear conflict, as the sandy ...

A map prepared by the Defense Department in 1962 shows potential ranges of Soviet ballistic missiles from Cuba. Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis briefing materials/John F. Kennedy ...

We don't know if Maduro’s ousting will make freedom ring for oppressed Venezuelans, but that message would resonate worldwide ...

And even after six decades there is an important lesson to be learned. The story is familiar to most of our more seasoned readers. In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, Cuba's communist ...

After inspectors at the Panama Canal found Cuban weaponry on a North Korean boat, the Cuban government isn't even trying to hide the fact that the property belongs to them. Cuba's Foreign Ministry has ...

As Russia and the U.S. continue to struggle with the consequences of the Cold War nuclear build-up, we mark a sober anniversary in our history with nuclear weapons. On this day, 50 years ago, a U.S.

The world was going to end. That was all you knew, or thought you knew, on October 16, 1962. The news came on the TV that day. It had to do with Russia and Cuba and nuclear missiles 90 miles away from ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, ...