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A Glance at the Cuban Missile Crisis
March 25, 2022
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) plans for expansion plays out on Russia’s borders, the question of sovereignty and defense could be recalled through the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.
Ukraine Crisis Should Have Been Avoided
February 17, 2022
An avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense, writes Jack Matlock, the last U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R.
Ready for Another Game of Russian Roulette?
January 21, 2022
What may have looked to the public like a Soviet capitulation turned out to be a successful, desperate, and potentially fatal gamble by the Soviet Union.
Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 7, 2021
Over the years, the myth that the “nuking” of two Japanese cities was justified, has lost much of its appeal on both sides of the Pacific.
