Castro's regime was granted new status. Let's call it MAP, or Mutually-Assured-Protection. Here’s the exact wording from Khrushchev when gleefully agreeing to Kennedy’s terms: ...

Castro's regime was granted new status. Let's call it MAP, or Mutually-Assured-Protection. Here’s the exact wording from Khrushchev when gleefully agreeing to Kennedy’s terms: ...

Editor’s Note: Tim Naftali, a CNN presidential historian and NYU clinical associate professor co-authored “One Hell of a Gamble:” Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964, with Aleksandr ...

John F. Kennedy was Castro’s adversary; Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier, was his patron. At one point, I mentioned the letter he wrote to Khrushchev at the height of the crisis, ...

Unaware of Kennedy’s and Khrushchev’s progress toward a deal, at 2 a.m. on October 27, Castro decided to write to Khrushchev, encouraging him to use his nuclear weapons to destroy the United ...

Khrushchev, however, wrote a peaceful, reconciling letter to Castro on Jan. 31, 1963, that corresponded to his Noah’s Ark letter to Kennedy. Castro accepted his invitation to come to the Soviet ...

Oct. 10, 2002 — -- Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev lied to President John F. Kennedy about the Soviet placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba 40 years ago, Cuban President Fidel Castro told ...

Jon Wiener makes a surprising oversimplification. He argues that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and his Cuban counterpart Fidel Castro put the missiles in Cuba because they “wanted a bargaining ...

Only later did we learn that Fidel Castro, whom Khrushchev viewed as ... Kalb believes that Khrushchev and Kennedy both wanted peace when they signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963 and ...

According to Castro, Cuban officials recreated the circumstances of Kennedy's shooting after the assassination. "It wasn't possible for one man to do," he says. (Claudia Daut/Reuters) Fidel Castro ...