The Cuban government, which has so far outlasted 13 U.S. presidents, faces its gravest challenge yet. Images from The New ...

How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war. A spy photo of a ballistic missile base in San Cristobal, Cuba, taken in October of 1962.(Getty Images) On ...

Historical conflicts between the U.S. and Cuba span decades and include the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and ...

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 ...

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 key bilateral nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Russia — the New START Treaty — expired in early February of this year.

New reconnaissance photos suddenly changed the course of the Cold War. When U2 images confirmed Soviet missile sites in Cuba in October 1962, divisions emerged inside the White House over how to ...

Have you ever faked an illness to get out of a meeting or to avoid an obligation? President John F. Kennedy can do you one better. He faked a cold on Saturday, October 20, the fifth day of the Cuban ...

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President John F. Kennedy, and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara meet in the Cabinet Room in January 1961.(Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy ...

Hostilities between the United States and Cuba have spanned more than six decades. Key historical conflicts include the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.