https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

Castro and Khrushchev were now trading partners ... in firing distance of the USSR. President Kennedy called a meeting of the National Security Council, and went on TV to tell the American ...

Four months after the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna, tensions escalated on October 30, 1961, when the Soviets tested a 50-megaton nuclear bomb in the Arctic. “Khrushchev was eager ...

Some, like Reagan and Gorbachev’s Cold War-era exchanges, led to diplomacy and agreements, while others, like Kennedy and Khrushchev’s tense meetings, deepened geopolitical tensions.

Leading medical experts and organizations, such as the American Medical Association, quickly sent a joint letter urging Kennedy to preserve the meeting. "Each ACIP meeting holds tremendous weight ...