If Russia stationed nuclear missiles in Venezuela, the world could find itself in a repeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis—the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Newly-christened “Secretary of ...
And even after six decades there is an important lesson to be learned. The story is familiar to most of our more seasoned readers. In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, Cuba's communist ...
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest to nuclear war. The conventional wisdom is that decision-making occurred “with ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edward Segal covers crisis-related news, topics, and issues. The Cuban Missile Crisis was partly resolved by a reporter acting as ...
On Jan. 3, the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife by United States forces reminded us of the Cuban ...