The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... Secretary of Defense (archival audio): The U-2 was shot down. They fired against our low-altitude ...
In October 1962, Soviet Russia tried to install weapons on an island in the Caribbean, an event that became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis ... arms race, the Soviets felt as though their ...
When the Soviet Union tore down the Berlin Wall, it was considered the end of the Cold War. That war, which lasted a ...
Everyone has been left baffled after learning the nuclear launch code America used during the Cuban Missile Crisis and part of ... America's nukes to bomb the Soviets 'back to the Stone Age.' ...
That same day a US U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down ... crisis. As we quibble with China over one small missile system ...
Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...
"For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path ... forcing the Soviets to dismantle the ...
The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... Secretary of Defense (archival audio): The U-2 was shot down. They fired against our low-altitude ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction ... On the same day, a US spy plane was shot down over Cuba, further raising tensions. Kennedy decided to ignore the second ...