Council on Foreign Relations

President John F. Kennedy Fakes a Fever—The Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Five

JFK pleaded illness to cancel a Midwest campaign trip and return to Washington to decide how to respond to the Cuban Missile ...

‘They handled it exactly the right way’: How the Kennedys averted the 1962 Cuban missile crisis

In October 1962, the world came to the brink of nuclear war. According to insiders who spoke to the BBC, the expertise of ...
Council on Foreign Relations

John F. Kennedy Campaigns While the ExComm Debates—The Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Four

JFK’s speeches on the campaign trail in Illinois and Ohio gave no hint of the crisis that the United States faced.
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Cuban Missile Crisis Remembrance: U-2 Photos Reveal Soviet Missiles in Cuba

On October 14, 1962, an American reconnaissance flight photographed missile sites that brought the world to the brink of ...

India and Pakistan have forgotten the most enduring lesson of the Cuban missile crisis

After the dangerous escalation in May 2025, the world cannot afford another confrontation in Southasia which tests ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Michael Dobbs, Writer: Kennedy repeats his demand for Khrushchev to pull out, says that time is of the essence, if Khrushchev ...
Texarkana GazetteOpinion

EDITORIAL | The Missiles of October: Cold War brought years of fear to our nation

Philadelphia Inquirer front page of October 23, 1962, the morning after President John F. Kennedy's televised address to the ...

In the Cuban Missile Crisis meeting recording, the President asked, 'How many in Turkey?'—Six months later, those 15 were gone, just as the secret deal promised

"How many of our weapons are in Turkey?""I believe about 15."At 11:50 a.m. on October 16, 1962, in the White House Cabinet ...

This Day in History: The start of the Cuban Missile Crisis

On this day in the year 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis began after a high-altitude spy plane photographed soviet missiles in ...
Henry Stewart History on MSN

The Cuban Missile Crisis almost triggered nuclear war

The Cuban Missile Crisis came closest to turning the Cold War nuclear. This video examines the submarine incident, the warning signs, and the split-second decisions that kept escalation from spiraling ...
Opinion

Almanac for Oct. 16, 2026

Today is Friday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2026. There are 76 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 16, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that ...
The Hill

Putin’s Cuban Missile Crisis in Ukraine

Only a small percentage of Americans alive today were witnesses to the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, in which a nuclear war was narrowly averted. Will Vladimir Putin’s four-plus year invasion of ...