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David Goldman on November 22, 2023

The Biden Administration gave Xi Jinping exactly what he wanted at last week’s San Francisco summit, namely, a White House statement that “We obviously don’t support independence for Taiwan.”

The story of how an ABC film in 1983 changed President Reagan's mind about the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Snafu With Ed Helms, the iHeartPodcast hosted by Helms about history's greatest screwups, has been renewed for a second and third season.

Forty Years After

Oxford UK (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 - Statistical methods can evaluate whether pivotal military events, like the Battle of Jutland, American involvement in the Vietnam war or the nuclear arms race, couldve turned out otherwise, accordi

Russian leaders threaten nuclear use so frequently in Ukraine that it has to be considered a possibility.

People prefer to fret about the threat from climate change, even though we can adapt

It was, as the Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, “the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life.” The series of

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has elevated global nuclear tensions to a level not seen since the height of the Cold War. Absent any signs of responsible leadership from Russian President Vladimir Putin, it is incumbent on the leaders of other nuclear-armed countries to take practical and prompt action to de-escalate, counter immediate threats, and agree on common steps toward non-proliferation and eventual disarmament. The war in Ukraine, accompanied by Russia’s nuclear saber-ratt...