When students begin learning about the Cold War, they often encounter the most dramatic moments first: the Berlin Wall, ...
The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as an ...
The same Cold War rocket built to carry a nuclear warhead across continents became the vehicle that launched humanity into the space age. When the Soviet Union put Sputnik into orbit in 1957, it did ...
The Cold War wasn’t fought through direct large-scale conflict between superpowers, but through intelligence, strategy, and influence. Behind the public tension between the United States and the ...
The Cold War was an unusual time to be alive, with children practicing duck and cover drills in school and apprehension of nuclear weapons. Throughout the 45 years of the Cold War, the United States ...
There is nothing new under the sun. The same debates and challenges American policymakers and academics are having now over how best to measure and conceptualize the Chinese defense budget closely ...