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Nuclear warfare
- Cold WarOn the 5th of March 1946, former British prime minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech in Fulton, Missouri, that would define the opening chapter of…
- Nuclear warfareA mushroom cloud rose over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on the 6th of August 1945. This event marked the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons in…
- Able Archer 83In May 1981, a closed-session meeting of senior KGB officers and Soviet leaders took place. General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and KGB chairman Yuri Andropov…
- Deterrence theoryIn 1966, Thomas Schelling published a book titled Arms and Influence that redefined how scholars understood the use of threats in international relations.
- Aftermath of World War IIIn 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II as the world's two dominant powers. Their alliance had been forged to defeat Nazi…
- World War IIThe Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939 and ended on the 2nd of September 1945. This global conflict involved nearly every country in the…
- Stanislav PetrovStanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was born on the 7th of September 1939 to a Russian family near Vladivostok. His father, Yevgraf, flew fighter aircraft during…