The Eisenhower administration decided that local law enforcement agencies, asked to keep an eye out for clandestine weapons ... had decided to start an all-out war.

World War II was brought to its chilling climax in two brilliant, white flashes in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but while one chapter of history ended, another began. That of the ...

All of these weapons are sea-based and carried by Trident submarine ... to use nuclear weapons in “extreme circumstances of legitimate self-defense." As the Cold War ended, North Korea found itself in ...

manufacturing guns that could help win World War I. At this indoor range, men—perhaps motivated by pinup pictures and the urgency of a calendar—adjusted the sights and tested the accuracy of ...

On November 17, 1969, détente began to bear fruit with the opening in Helsinki of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) on nuclear weapons. But the Cold War had not yet thawed, and détente ...