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 [...]
Iraq War: 2003-present
Weekly Digest – 3/10/10
by Nick DucoteWednesday, March 10th, 2010
Tags: Cold War, The Hurt Locker, waterboarding
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Obama’s Foreign Policy: An Assessment After Year One — Introduction
by Andrew JohnsTuesday, January 26th, 2010
A little over a year ago, I wrote an essay for this page that outlined some of the multitudinous foreign policy challenges that would face Barack Obama’s administration when it took office on 20 January 2009 (“Of Mice, Men, and Presidents,” December 2008). During the past twelve months, the president and his national security team [...]
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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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