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A Physicist Has an Ingenious Plan to Track Arctic Sea Ice With a Cold War-Era Early Warning Radar
An effort to bounce radar off the ionosphere across vast distances was too late for the Cold War, but it may help make Arctic shipping lanes safe.
Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, defends the ...
Champagne corks popped on December 3, 1989 as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president George H.W. Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the cold war. Gorbachev and Bush's predecessor in the White ...
Military personnel emerge from their foxholes to observe the atomic bomb explosion at the Nevada Proving Grounds, a nuclear testing site near Camp Desert Rock, Nevada on May 15th 1952. Source: U.S. Army via Getty Images. In the decades following NSC-68 ...
No sooner had World War II ended, then another conflict began. This was the Cold War – an ideological battle between the United States and the Soviet Union and its allies that would last roughly 45 years. (The term was apparently coined by George Orwell ...
U.S. President Joe Biden, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, Nov. 14, 2022, in Nusa Dua, in Bali, Indonesia. In December 2017, the U.S. National Security Strategy introduced ...
An end to which Cold War? / Walter LaFeber -- The Cold War, the long peace, and the future / John Lewis Gaddis -- Quiet cataclysm : some afterthoughts on World War III / John Mueller -- Some lessons from the Cold War / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- Nuclear ...
A bizarre Las Vegas mansion built deep underground during the Cold War has just sold for $4.55 million—despite costing an estimated $10 million to build
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Belgian piranha squads - Cold War infantry ideas in a modern vehicle
Belgian Piranha fusilier sections carried Cold War infantry ideas into a newer armored vehicle era. Ten-man squads, Minimis, grenade launchers, sniper rifles, and adaptable crews gave each section mobility,