![ST-A26-16-62 29 October 1962 National Security Council Executive Committee (EXCOMM) Meeting, 10:10AM [Scratching in center of negative. White spotting throughout negative. Black line in upper left corner of negative.] Please credit "Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston."](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/ST-A26-16-62-300x138.jpg)
Premier Nikita Khruschev
The Cuban Missile Crisis: On the Brink of Nuclear War
By Peter KrossFor 13 tension-filled days in October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear war than it has ever come before or since. Read more
Premier Nikita Khruschev
For 13 tension-filled days in October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear war than it has ever come before or since. Read more
Premier Nikita Khruschev
However, by the end of September, the Soviet offensive ground to a halt against the great Ukrainian river Dnieper. Read more
Premier Nikita Khruschev
In June 1961, Walter Ulbrecht, longtime Communist party leader of East Germany, denied that his government had any intention of building the Berlin Wall, which would separate East and West Berlin. Read more
Premier Nikita Khruschev
Everyone who has ever read a spy novel knows the basic plot line. A scientist has developed a formula, or intelligence operative has obtained secret plans or a roll or film. Read more
Premier Nikita Khruschev
“To the Great Stalin, from the grateful Hungarian People,” read the inscription on a 24-foot-high bronze statue of Joseph Stalin on the grounds of Budapest City Park, erected in 1951 to honor the tyrant of the Soviet Union. Read more