At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated ... coupled with similarities of ideology, pushed Cuba into the arms of the Soviet Union.

Military analysts believe ... to the former Soviet Union during the Cold War that briefly hosted nuclear missiles at Moscow’s behest during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The arrival of the ...

The Cuban missile crisis was the moment during the Cold War when the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war. Garfield by Jim Davis The Latest ...

In Cuba, Russia's old Cold War ally, the repressive regime ... citizenship in return for a year's service in the Russian army. A Russian passport allows visa-free travel to 117 destinations ...

The author extends his first chronological compendium, A Military History of the Cold War 1945-1962, right into the finale ... This date was chosen as a natural reboot after the Cuban Missile Crisis, ...

His senior thesis was an analysis of why Britain failed to maintain a military ... the basic issue of war or peace.” Kennedy’s political career played out through the Cold War.