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Cuban Missile Crisis: the 3 most surprising things you didn't know
Fifty years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union within a hair’s breadth of nuclear war. Here are three things that many Americans don’t know about what historians routinely call “the most dangerous moment in human history.”
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Gallery: Controversial US Generals
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Cuban Missile Crisis: the 3 most surprising things you didn't know
Fifty years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union within a hair’s breadth of nuclear war. Here are three things that many Americans don’t know about what historians routinely call “the most dangerous moment in human history.”
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Opinion: 50 years after Cuban missile crisis: closer than you thought to World War III
Fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, many people find it hard to believe that the confrontation could have pushed the US and Soviet Union to nuclear war. Robert F. Kennedy’s newly released papers remind us why this was the most dangerous moment in recorded history.
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Company behind 'An Inconvenient Truth' to release Rumsfeld documentary
Filmmaker Errol Morris will release a documentary about former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was in charge of the 2003 invasion in Iraq.
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The Passage of Power
In Volume IV of “The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” biographer Robert A. Caro concentrates on the succession of political triumphs and defeats that accompanied LBJ to the Oval Office.
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The Circle Bastiat Hillary Clinton's new job: At the world bank?
Hillary Clinton has announced that she is interested in a job at the World Bank, opening up when Robert Zoellick retires.
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Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris explores the nature of truth in photographs.
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Hemingway's Boat
From global acclaim to suicide: Paul Hendrickson examines the three final decades of Ernest Hemingway.
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Costliest government 'program' of all? Undeclared wars
Congress's habit of ignoring Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution has arguably cost taxpayers trillions. And now it seems to be happening again, with Obama's military action in Libya.
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Is the war in Afghanistan still worth fighting?
As the war in Afghanistan begins its tenth year, the American public – and even the Obama administration – seems divided about America's purpose there.
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Why would Defense Secretary Robert Gates want to retire?
Robert Gates indicated in an interview published Monday that he plans to leave his job next year. Here are three things that might be factors in his decision.
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Gallery: Controversial US Generals
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: movie review
The Oscar-nominated documentary ‘The Most Dangerous Man in America’ profiles Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
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McNamara stuck to Vietnam War despite doubts
The former defense secretary went on to head the World Bank but could never escape his association with Vietnam.
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