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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joe Biden was leaving a college class. The Soviet ambassador was in a dentist’s chair. Fidel Castro was at lunch. Kennedy’s death 60 years ago shocked them all.

The contours of World War III are visible in numerous conflicts. The president of the United States is not ready.