When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with Khrushchev, ...

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