A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.

DIPLOMACY also crosses the conventional boundary of words and official discourse far too often, normally existing in the form ...

In 1962, President John Kennedy told our enemy, Soviet Union Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, to get his missiles out of ...

Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev, Courtesy ... Khrushchev parried, dividing Berlin with a cement wall, barbed wire, and a line of army tanks. The enemies stared at each other across the ...

Rodney Warwick on the crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear armageddon For those born before or after 1945, until the coming down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ... President John Kennedy ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, all these countries moved out of the Russian ... In 1962, the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev cooperated with Fidel Castro to deploy Russian nuclear missiles in ...

Secret negotiations between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and JFK and between his brother Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, and Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin led to a deal. U.S ...

When Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first man to step foot in space he was declared a national hero by the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev who barred him from going into space again because ...

The US spun up a shock-and-awe campaign to sell the world on the splendor of its affordable, abundant consumer conveniences.