In late September, 1983, President Ronald Reagan visited New York City to address the UN General Assembly and meet with ...

The US deploys Cold War-era B-52 bombers in Iran, marking a strategic shift to sustained aerial strikes as Tehran’s weakened ...

The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of an era with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the dissolution of the USSR, and ...

"The current questioning of nuclear deterrence implies something other than its withering away. There is no post-nuclear strategy. . . .[T]he nuclear instrument remains the central element in the ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

James Cheshire receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and ...