How many empty chambers would there have to be in a gun before you considered playing Russian roulette? If you survived spinning the chamber and pulling the trigger a few times, would you keep playing ...

In the modern day, the term "mutually assured destruction" is most associated with the use of nuclear weapons in war; if one side uses an atomic bomb against the other, there will be retaliation. In ...

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 ...

In a recent editorial for The New York Times, Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar — who wrote a book about Vladimir Putin called “All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin” — explained ...

The White House is billing Friday’s relative quiet following a public and fiery clash between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk as a détente. Trump allies, ill at ease about the possibility of ...

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The United States needs a replacement concept for deterrence, the theory that was a child of the Cold War. It no longer is fit for purpose. Why? A war in which there were only losers and no winners ...

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