Canada once hosted nukes on it's land? O' you betcha there, bud! The Cuban Missile Crisis led Canada to allow the U.S.

Despite a long history of mediation, the Vatican grapples with the volatile political climate testing its capacity to broker ...

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

The revelation has sparked widespread debate about the security measures during one of the tensest periods in global history.

Pope Francis has hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a "gesture of great hope" that he prays will be undertaken ...

According to his critics, Jimmy Carter was a humanitarian president and a weak leader. He faced enormous challenges that were nearly impossible to resolve through humanitarian policies: the Soviet ...

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During the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War ... Dr. Blair attributed this decision to the tensions between President John F. Kennedy and his Air Force generals during the Cold War.

In his memoirs Eisenhower wrote “The makers of the expensive munitions of war, to be sure, like the profits they receive, and ...

This won't be the first time politics has endangered our professional military. What can we learn from the past?