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The sickle and hammer on a Soviet Union flag from the 1930s.
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)
The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi Book Cover
Clashing Shades of Red
Cover of Trotsky A Biography by Robert Service.
Trotsky: A Biography
Sputnik
Soviets Launch Sputnik, 1957
Cover of Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II by Karel C. Berkhoff
Long Live the Soviet Motherland?
Stalin's boots are all that remain of his statue in Budapest.
1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe
A marooned boat on what used to be the shore of the shrinking Aral Sea. After their 1991 independence, there was a guarded optimism surrounding the five countries of Central Asia. Today, despite the region's strategic and petroleum importance, the future of these new states appears beached by struggling economies, corruption, authoritarian politics, and the global drug trade.
Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order
WE.177A was an air-launched boosted fission weapon deployed by the UK
The Two Sides of the Nuclear Coin
President Eisenhower in Holland in 1951.
Will the United States Start a New Nuclear Arms Race?
The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger launching in 1983.
Mars: A Planet Too Far?
Alfonso García Robles at the Public Hearing on Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament in 1981.
A Model for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
Lockheed u 2c aircraft Image from Public domain images website
Brandishing Nukes–A Self-Defeating Policy
President of the United States Ronald Reagan in a briefing with National Security Council staff on the Libya bombing on 15 April 1986.
The National Insecurity State
President George H.W. Bush shaking hands with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin.
Russia — Ten Years After the Fall
Soviet soldiers riding on a combat vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1986.
The United States Must Learn From the Soviet War in Afghanistan
Northern Alliance Troops in Afghanistan in 2001.
Why Afghanistan Will Not Be a Quagmire
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent, and Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Hitler’s Gamble with Destiny, 1941
US president Bill Clinton and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997
The Next Cold War?
Egyptian Prime Minister Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signing the Camp David Peace Accords on September 17, 1978.
Can Sharon Too Become a Peacemaker?
President John F. Kennedy delivers an address on the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Historical Analogies: Handle With Care
Image of T2 Atomic Demolition Munition from the 1950s.
The Test-Ban Treaty and the Cold War’s Lessons