The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with Khrushchev, ...

Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe. Published by G. T. Putnam’s Sons, New York. 608 pages, 2011. Frederick Kempe is President of the Atlantic ...

Discover the dramatic story behind the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. This video explores its Cold ...

Vienna, Austria, June 1961: While covering the Vienna summit meeting, Stars and Stripes photographer Gus Schuettler found himself face-to-face with a man feared by millions of American schoolchildren ...

In December 1960, the first M60 tanks arrived in the 3rd Armored Division of the U.S Army in Germany. In early January 1961, this information was passed on to Marshal Vasily Chuikov, Chief of the ...

As a Time magazine bureau chief, he was pivotal in the publication of revelatory taped interviews with the ousted premier that had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union. By Sam Roberts On Sunday, Xi ...

History is a playlist crackling with fire and intrigue in “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” The film’s heady 2½ hours are as thick with detail as a graduate seminar yet bustle like a TikTok video, a deft ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes ...