Mexico’s drug cartels are so tenacious, so powerful, that under intense pressure, they forge diamonds rather than crumble. Amid years of bloody turf wars, new tariffs aimed at hitting the global ...

"We kept food, water, and an AM radio in the basement. I remember being taught how to turn the dial for Civil Defense ...

Mikhail Gorbachev is remembered in the West as the man who ended the Cold War without bloodshed. Inside Russia, many see him as the leader who destroyed their country. His reforms unleashed forces he ...

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 ...

Of all today’s crises and conflicts, the US-China rivalry will most fundamentally remake our world. A contest between the two top powers will shape the international system and the lives of people ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

Examine the origins of great power competition in the Cold War. In the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a global competition for allies, influence, and security. To many ...

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 – ...

Presentation scheduled for May 30 during the Annual International Country Music Conference at Belmont University NASHVILLE, TN, UNITED STATES, May 20, 2025 ...