Nuclear weapons shaped every decision of the Cold War — but why weren’t they ever used? This video explores the evolution of deterrence theory, from Mutually Assured Destruction to arms control ...

I recently posted an important and inspiring essay by David Krieger - founder and president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - and originally appearing on the Great Transition Initiative website ...

The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...

It’s another worrying sign that the Trump administration is shifting its military strategy away from deterrence – and increasing the likelihood of nuclear war. The Secretary of War plaques are ...

As recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America’s military power should be for. Defense of the ...