The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction ... However, the American Navy did search other vessels. A Soviet tanker was allowed to deliver oil and a Lebanese ship was ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis is most commonly conveyed as the ... a nuclear catastrophe-- but for the actions of a lone Soviet navy officer. In early 1962, the Soviet security establishment devised ...

Writing in the Times, he suggested that could trigger a confrontation similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The extraordinary warning came as the government scrambles to justify the proposed ...

"A One Way Trip To Death" explores the history of how this lethal assault weapon came about, and how it played an impressive role in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Author Cmdr. Richard F. Kaufman, ...

The United States Navy then blockaded Cuba ... Six decades later, the war in Ukraine has produced an echo of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Continuing a policy of serial escalation, NATO supplied ...

In 1961, with an executive order, John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps. Kennedy established the Navy SEALs in 1962. In what is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy placed a naval blockade ...

The DEFCON 3 exercise term is “Round House.” At less-tense points during the Cuban Missile Crisis, various parts of the U.S. military were at DEFCON 3. Over a decade later, in 1973 ...

Retired U.S. Navy Captain Duane Cox spent much of his military career flying photo reconnaissance missions. The Vietnam veteran “was involved with photo flights that detected the early ...

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 ...

Dixon, age 79, of Baxter/Brainerd, formerly of Chaska, passed away at his home on 15, 2023. Stephen (Steve) Dixon was born in Chaska on December 22, 1943, to Ralph and ...