The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

Throughout history, humanity has faced numerous high-stakes moments that could have ended in total catastrophe. From nuclear ...

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On Feb. 12, 1964, a little more than 10 weeks following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a film called Seven ...

The trajectory of a crisis depends on three resources: power, determination, and information. Power is the obvious variable. Most of the time both sides have a fair grasp of the distribution of power.

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing the US and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. It was during this ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

The system of ranking the perceived threat to national security was created during the Cold ... during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ puts clock at 89 seconds from nuclear apocalypse, closer to ‘midnight’ than even during the ...

A new monument will be put up in southeast New Mexico honoring the sacrifices eight men made while aiding the United States' nuclear efforts during the Cold War. "These men died during a tremendous ...