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Kennedy vs. Khrushchev: Thirteen Days of Nuclear Brinkmanship
Who actually won the Cuban Missile Crisis? Every history book says Kennedy stood firm and Khrushchev blinked. What most of them leave out: on October 27, 1962, Robert Kennedy secretly met Soviet ambas
The Murder of Suzanne Jovin
I keep coming back to one detail in the Suzanne Jovin case: a two-mile gap between where she was last seen and where she died, ten minutes apart. On December 4, 1998, the 21-year-old Yale senior dropp
What If D-Day Had Failed?
On the night before D-Day, Eisenhower wrote a note confessing to a failure that hadn't happened yet, then misdated it by a full month. He assumed the invasion might not hold. The note said the landing
What If the Cuban Missile Crisis Had Gone Nuclear?
On October 27, 1962, a Soviet submarine captain wanted to fire a nuclear torpedo at American ships. Under protocol it took three officers to agree. Two said yes. Vasili Arkhipov said no. The submarine