Four years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities, the Soviet Union explodes its first nuclear weapon at a test range in Kazakhstan. That the Soviet Union obtained “the bomb” is not surprising, but the timing of the test is. Most U.S. intelligence assessments at the time concluded Moscow was at [...]
Harry Truman administration: 1945-1953
Weekly Digest – 3/10/10
by Nick DucoteWednesday, March 10th, 2010
Tags: Cold War, The Hurt Locker, waterboarding
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Lessons for Late Baby Boomers
by Tom ZeilerTuesday, January 26th, 2010
I’m eight months older than President Barack Obama, so we fall into the same generation. Of course, the similarities end there, including his ascent to a slightly higher administrative level than I will ever reach. Still, we share some things in common because we gained an awareness of the world around the same time, in [...]
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Afghanistan and the Chinese Civil War
by William StueckThursday, November 12th, 2009
Any political historian will tell you that government decisionmakers frequently use historical analogies in making up their minds and that, more often than not, they do so badly. And Kimber Quinney reminded us in her thoughtful November 9 commentary that historians are not immune to employing such analogies either, or in doing so badly.
Yet as [...]
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