Henry Kissinger often said that nuclear arms are “weapons in search of a doctrine.” After the Cold War, some strategists have ...

The reason why the USAF kept nuclear armed B-52s on continual rotation just outside of Soviet airspace...for nearly a decade.

Serhii Plokhy is the author of “The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and Survival.” In Moscow last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a successful test of “Burevestnik,” a ...

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Many of the tactics used by modern militaries were forged long before today’s conflicts ever began. During the Cold War, firearms were designed with an eye toward deterrence and large-scale war, but ...

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Concerns have grown that the U.S. has burned through a lot of weapons during the war with Iran.

The Cold War was unlike any rivalry in modern history. The United States and Soviet Union faced each other across political, military, technological, and ideological battlefields while possessing ...

It goes back far enough that militaries have developed weapons intended to overwhelm enemies and shift the balance of power on the battlefield. But some of these innovations proved so destructive or ...