Tag: Cuban Missile Crisis

A Brief History of the DEFCON System

Created during the Cold War as a system of progressive levels of…

The Overlooked Role of the Vought RF-8A and VFP-62 in the Cuban Missile Crisis

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten,…

[Special Feature] World’s first nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise retires. For the moment.

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was inactivated on Dec. 1 after 5 decades of…