Living with the constant fear that nuclear war could break out at any second was just a fact of life that everyone had to ...
In the decades after World War II, West Germany rebuilt its military with a bold experiment in mechanized infantry—the ...
The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of an era with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the dissolution of the USSR, and ...
Historic submarines are surprisingly similar to those deployed by today's Navy and can provide an unprecedented look into ...
Considering the widespread antisemitism today that matches Hitler’s era, Israelis do not take survival for granted.
A US view of the cold war world, 1950, showing the fearsome power of the USSR. Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for ...
Wars are no longer defined by victory or defeat. The disappearance of a balancing force has transformed wars into something far harder to conclude than to begin ...
"The current questioning of nuclear deterrence implies something other than its withering away. There is no post-nuclear strategy. . . .[T]he nuclear instrument remains the central element in the ...