This Day in History: Cuban Missile Crisis intensifies on ‘Black Saturday’

In an incident that came to be known as Black Saturday, the U.S. military was placed under DEFCON 2 — just one step away from ...
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Here's why Soviet pilots are buried at a US base in Alaska

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

This Day in History: JFK addresses the nation on Cuban Missile Crisis

Over 60 years ago on Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation in a televised speech about U.S. spy ...