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The Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis? The U.S. Needs Allies

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 ...
Texarkana Gazette

EDITORIAL | The Missiles of October: Cuban crisis began 63 years ago today

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 ...
Hartford Courant

Opinion: What JFK’s Cuban missile speech still teaches us

In today’s highly charged political environment, in which a president’s handling of international crises, however competent or inept, is immediately subject to hyperbole and sanctification by ...
WDBJ

This Day in History: JFK prevents nuclear war, ending Cuban Missile Crisis

The United States has been close to war a number of times, but 63 years ago was the closest this country has ever gotten to nuclear war. President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation in a national ...
WLRN

The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...
The Aviationist

The Overlooked Role of the Vought RF-8A and VFP-62 in the Cuban Missile Crisis

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten, high-speed low-level and dangerous recon role during a time the world was on the brink. On Oct. 14, 1962, United States ...
The Pantagraph

60 years later, McLean County man shares vivid memory of Cuban Missile Crisis

BLOOMINGTON — On Sunday, Oct. 28, 1962, the world sighed in relief as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was removing its nuclear missiles from Cuba. For two weeks in ...
The Financial

Behind the scenes: A look back at the Cuban missile crisis

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest to nuclear war. The conventional wisdom is that decision-making occurred “with ...
The Conversation

The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

Renata Keller received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world ...