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 -- ...

A clip from the BBC Archive from President John Kennedy’s television broadcast to the American people on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sutable for teaching GCSE History units on The Cold War in England ...

In 1962, U.S. and Soviet forces stared each other down with nuclear missiles ready to launch. For 13 days, one wrong move ...

"This book is based on the exhibition "To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis," presented in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery at the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, from October 12, ...

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 ...

The National Museum of the US Air Force features a Minuteman II missile procedures trainer where crews practiced for doomsday ...