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 ...

In October 1962, the world stood on the edge of destruction. The United States discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, sparking thirteen tense days when global annihilation felt inevitable. Both ...

Delegates raise their hands in a vote of 19-1 approving the United State' decision to take steps against Cuba, during a meeting of the Organization of American States, called by President Kennedy, to ...

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 ...

Director Roger Donaldson says actor Bruce Greenwood virtually became John F. Kennedy during the production of “Thirteen Days,” the riveting historical thriller that relives the 1962 Cuban missile ...

What a delicious commentary on the Cold War days and more recent doomsdays (“Memories from the end of the world,” Oct. 14)! I, too, recall the “ends of the world” including the Cold War, the Cuban ...

Foreword / Peter Almond -- Introduction. Armageddon in retrospect: "carrying the fire" of the Cuban Missile Crisis into the twenty-first century -- Cast of characters. Three leaders/three crises -- ...

April 10 -- Kevin Costner's plot to convince the world's leaders to watch Thirteen Days, his recent film based on the Cuban missile crisis, continues to gain steam. The actor met with Cuban leader ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. What did analysts find in the recon photographs from the Cuban Missile Crisis? http://j.mp/RwFMbj Former CIA ...

Thirteen Days, a big, square, rousing political thriller docudrama, traces the seismic backroom maneuvers of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Directed by Roger Donaldson (”No Way Out”), from a script by ...