Tag: Cold War
No, the world isn’t heading toward a new Cold War –...
David Ekbladh, Tufts University
The past decade and a half has seen upheaval across the globe. The 2008 financial...
The splendid life of Jimmy Carter – 5 essential reads
Howard Manly, The Conversation
In Mark 8:34-38 a question is asked: “For what shall it profit a man, if...
How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘father...
Calder Walton, Harvard Kennedy School
“Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind...
With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s ‘bunker...
David L. Pike, American University
At the end of the Academy Award-nominated film “Don’t Look Up,” with a meteor...
When a winner becomes a loser: Winston Churchill was kicked out...
Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The end of World War II in Europe and the defeat of Hitler and Nazi...
The battle between NBC and CBS to be the first to...
Mike Conway, Indiana University
When the Berlin Wall was completed in August 1961, East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the...
3 questions about vodka, answered
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Towards the end of Ian Fleming’s spy novel “Dr. No,” James Bond orders a vodka dry martini – “Shaken and...
War games shed light on real-world strategies
David Banks, American University School of International Service
Want to try your hand at negotiating during a crisis? Think you have a plan that could...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists...
Chantal Nguyen, University of Colorado Boulder
Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see...
