Current leaders would be wise to follow Kennedy’s exemplary rhetorical model when facing and talking publicly about today’s ...

In October 1962 our world came very close to a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now known as ...

Tomorrow will mark the thirteenth day of what future historians might well dub the “Iranian nuclear missile crisis.” Set off by the overwhelming Israeli air campaign against Iran begun on June 13, the ...

Kennedy took the message public on television on Oct. 22, announcing a naval quarantine of Cuba and that any missile attacks on the United States or the western hemisphere from Cuba would be ...

The Soviet missiles in Cuba were a threat to the security of the United States and the Western Hemisphere. As such they endangered the peace of the world. The action undertaken against this threat ...

Way to Quarantine. For the U.S.president Eisenhower’s action amounted to a drastic step against Cuba without compromising the incoming Kennedy Administration’s relations with the rest of Latin ...

Kennedy lifts the quarantine after the Soviets agree to remove their bombers. Statement Announcing the End of the Cuban Naval Quarantine November 20, 1962 [The first three sentences of a statement ...

President John F. Kennedy is seen in this October 23, 1962 file photo after signing a proclamation formally putting into effect the U.S. arms quarantine against Cuba. File photo UPI | License Photo ...

President John F. Kennedy is seen in this October 23, 1962 file photo after signing a proclamation formally putting into effect the U.S. arms quarantine against Cuba.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, marking the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis on this day in 1962. What ...