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Is This the American Suez?

If the pointless war on Iran is a historical marker equivalent to Suez in ignominy, the question becomes, what do we do with ...
The Second Continental Congress adopts The United States Declaration of Independence. Sept. 28, 1781: The Siege of Yorktown leads to negotiations for peace, ends British rule of the colonies and ...
The Kirov class was the Soviet Union’s attempt to build a surface warship massive enough to challenge U.S. carrier groups and nuclear submarines. At over 250 meters long and armed with heavy anti-ship ...
CHORNOBYL, Ukraine—When Ukrainian emergency workers clambered onto a damaged structure above Reactor No. 4 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, there were eerie echoes of 1986. Back then, when ...
Russia’s use of the Oreshnik nuclear missile extends beyond a single weapons system — its underlying logic is to terrorize ...
Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch ...
A chronological list of the best nuclear Doomsday films shows how the nuclear perspective unfolded from the earliest days to ...
The accident ended one of the Cold War's most dangerous secret operations.
The US and Canada each announced plans this week to build ten new nuclear reactors, the biggest coordinated nuclear push in North America in decades. The moves come as the AI boom, the war in Iran, ...
Operation Chrome Dome, a U.S. Air Force Cold War mission, flew continuous B-52 bombers around the world, armed with thermonuclear bombs that could attack the Soviet Union at a moment’s notice. On ...
In the wake of Operation Epic Fury, both supporters and critics of the president have described the joint U.S.-Israeli bombing campaigns as “exquisite.” Iran’s supreme leader, in addition to vast ...