The U.S. naval blockade of Cuba begins on October 24, 1962, and Washington quickly realizes the crisis is far from over. Soviet ships stop or reverse course, but four nuclear-armed submarines keep the ...

Historical analogies are never exact, and some can be misleading. With the announcement by President Trump of a naval blockade or quarantine of the Strait of Hormuz, the specter of another Cuban ...

Tensions between Cuba and the United States have persisted for more than six decades, but today the confrontation appears to be entering a new and potentially more dangerous phase.