These are some of the peculiarities of this arms race, marked for us by a very great rigidity of policy, and a terrifyingly rapid accumulation, probably on both sides, of a deadly munition. When we ...

Gavin is concerned that U.S. nuclear policy is distorted by myths about the past, and he believes that a better understanding of the history of the nuclear age would improve the contemporary approach.

In the 1950s the American public accepted above-ground nuclear bomb blasts just 65 miles from Las Vegas as part of the Cold War effort. Explore ways the government presented the safety and ...

President Harry S Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 establishing the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Explain the essence of “America’s struggle between vengeance and virtue ...

From the March 1952 issue of American Rifleman: In this day of giant tanks, supersonic airplanes, devastating atomic explosions, does the Army value the man with a rifle?

Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023, at age 100, exercised more than 50 years of influence on American foreign policy. I am a scholar of American foreign policy who has written on Kissinger ...