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| 1962, Feb. 10 |
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| The Soviet Union released Francis Gary Powers, U.S. pilot of the U-2 aircraft that crashed in the USSR in May 1960, in exchange for Col. Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy convicted of espionage by the United States in 1957. | 1 |
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| March 21 |
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| Khrushchev accepted President John F. Kennedy's proposal for Soviet-American cooperation in outer space exploration and research. Discussions regarding the possibility of such cooperation began on March 27. | 2 |
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| Aug. 5 |
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| The USSR resumed its nuclear tests with a high-altitude blast thought to be in the 40-megaton range. | 3 |
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| Nov. 21 |
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| The government announced the end of the state of alert that had been called for Warsaw Pact and Soviet forces because of the Cuban missile crisis. | 4 |
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