Cuban Missile Crisis

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On Tuesday nights, WLRN presents stories of conflict: wars, warriors and weapons. On January 14, starting at 8:00 p.m., the line-up includes the Cuban…

06/04/13 - Tuesday's Topical Currents is with nuclear historian Ward Wilson, author of FIVE MYTHS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Millions of American baby-boomers…

04/15/13 - Monday’s Topical Currents is with Temple University professor and investigative author Joan Mellen. She’s written THE GREAT GAME IN CUBA: How…

The Cuban-American Democrat. It is an unusual breed in Florida.Since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 made the Democratic administration of John F.…

October 1962 was life-changing for Miami native Charles Carter. Though he was only 16, he skipped school to go to an Army Recruiting Office the morning…

Fifty years ago we came within a pushed-button of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Dr. Henry Mack, IV remembers it well. The 81-year-old resident of…

Where were you on October 22, 1962?If you aren’t old enough to remember, ask someone over 50. That day, when President Kennedy revealed in a national TV…

The crisis brought the world as close as it's ever been to nuclear war, when the Soviet Union deployed dozens of nuclear weapons in Cuba. On that island nation, where those tense 13 days are known as the October Crisis, the event is being marked in a low-key way.

Recent research and a new book by the son of a Soviet insider are putting the Cuban Missile Crisis of a half century ago in a scary new light. Juan Tamayo…

Fifty years ago, the world faced nuclear war as President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev faced off. Kennedy's clear thinking during the Cuban missile crisis helped the countries avert that terrible prospect.