A Second Cuban Missile Crisis?

Russia Reportedly Sending Nuclear Bombers To Cuba; Castro Neither Confirms Nor Denies In a file photo Cuban President Fidel Castro gestures as he protests against the U.S. embargo, Oct. 31, 2003 in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia) (CBS/ AP) Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba's president was right to adopt a "dignified silence" over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may send nuclear bombers to the island, and said Cuba doesn't owe any explanation to Washington about the story. In a brief, cryptic essay posted on a government Web site Wednesday night, the 81-year-old former president neither confirmed nor denied the Monday report in Izvestia newspaper. Moscow is angry about U.S. plans for missile-defense sites in eastern Europe and Izvestia cited a "highly placed" military aviation source as saying, "While... [read full story]