Nuclear weapons shaped every decision of the Cold War — but why weren’t they ever used? This video explores the evolution of deterrence theory, from Mutually Assured Destruction to arms control ...

From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – long-range, strategic bombers. As the conflict wore on, technological ...

I recently posted an important and inspiring essay by David Krieger - founder and president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - and originally appearing on the Great Transition Initiative website ...

IN THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain an incongruous new member. That state was Sweden, a neutral power that sat ...

It’s another worrying sign that the Trump administration is shifting its military strategy away from deterrence – and increasing the likelihood of nuclear war. The Secretary of War plaques are ...

Whether the United States defines China as a global threat or a predominantly regional one will have pervasive implications for U.S. alliance and deterrence strategy in Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

As recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America’s military power should be for. Defense of the ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...