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 – ...
The perennially controversial question of “Who Started World War I,” is revisited by Prof. Mombauer (Open University, U.K.), in this thoroughly revised edition of her The Origins of the First World ...
The entrance to "Tunnel Vault" at the Las Alamos National Laboratory. (LANL photo) Civilians can now get a glimpse of what the term 'critical infrastructure protection' meant during the Cold War, as ...
Nearly 50 years ago, they were the ultimate symbol of the Cold War: two dozen Nike anti-aircraft missiles, positioned less than an hour's drive from the nation's capital, designed to fire at ...