The world is now closer to an actual nuclear conflagration than at any time since the end of the Cold War. This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles ...

Ukraine War Teaches about Deterrence Failure and Escalation By Ryan Tully The United States is in a new era of significant ...

The Seawolf-class submarine was designed during the Cold War as the pinnacle of U.S. naval engineering, intended to counter ...

Former US ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer suggests that the 2024 US presidential candidates be asked about their plan to ...

Laura Grego, a senior scientist and the research director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists ...

This outstanding collection of examples of Soviet-era propaganda is arranged chronologically from the Boleshevik Revolution to the Cold War arms race. Artist unknown. "There is a spectre haunting ...

Détente helped the superpowers reduce spending on the arms race and fighting the Cold War. Instead they could focus on problems in their own respective countries. The USA had suffered from ...

During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the U.S. Navy deployed two Iowa-class battleships, the USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS ...

Post-WWII, tension between the USA and the Soviet Union led to a worldwide Cold War. Reasons for this included: ideological differences, problems in Germany, the arms race and the Korean War.

Shortly after the Berlin Wall was torn down, prominent political leaders and commentators concluded that the U.S. military buildup under President Ronald Reagan had won the Cold War. "We were ...

Will state-driven strategy or corporate and VC free-for-all unlock AI's potential? For all the controversies surrounding artificial intelligence, there is a consensus that AI will likely be the ...

On November 17, 1969, détente began to bear fruit with the opening in Helsinki of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) on nuclear weapons. But the Cold War had not yet thawed, and détente ...