In a new docuseries, director Brian Knappenberger argues that the Cold War, which is generally considered to have ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, continues to this ...
The Cold War wasn't actually much of a war at all, as it saw very little actual combat between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two of the world's biggest superpowers, the two were in a nuclear ...
Post-WWII Europe: The nuclear arms race, the Korean War and Soviet movement into Europe. Recall the early days of post-WWII Europe through the nuclear arms race, American paranoia, the Korean War and ...
My recent column made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the reelection of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era; that the phase of history that began in ...
During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...
The Centurion was designed in the final months of World War II to survive German heavy guns and defeat Panthers and Tigers.
"Before charging headlong into this icy island again, the U.S. would be remiss not to learn from past failures," argues an environmental science professor.
The imperialist U.S. state stops at nothing; anything goes. Really?  After victory in World War II and with U.S. manufacturing in high gear, the United ...
Discover Multi-Purpose Food from a fallout shelter constructed in 1960 in Racine, WI. In the wake of World War II and the emerging Cold War, Multi-Purpose Food was promoted to Americans as a way to ...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the early history of the Central Intelligence Agency—its evolution from the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) through its midcentury berth in ...
When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...