The trajectory of a crisis depends on three resources: power, determination, and information. Power is the obvious variable. Most of the time both sides have a fair grasp of the distribution of power.

The Cuban Revolution was in 1959. This was followed by the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962––a heart-seizing stand-off between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles placed in Cuba and aimed ...

Drones have the potential to enhance nuclear deterrence, but they also introduce significant risks in terms of escalation ...

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” Stanford economist Paul Romer said at a venture capital seminar 21 years ago, ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

As the principal author of "shock and awe," I believe Donald Trump is in great debt to me for all the shock and awe he is applying at home and abroad with strokes of a Sharpie and verbal dictates.

Cruise missiles of past wars have meant the death of the delivery pilot. "A One Way Trip To Death" explores the history of how this lethal assault weapon came about, and how it played an impressive ...

On Oct. 28, 1962, the three major television networks interrupted their scheduled programs to broadcast a special report on ...

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ puts clock at 89 seconds from nuclear apocalypse, closer to ‘midnight’ than even during the ...

Alexandra Bell is bringing more than a decade of experience in nuclear policy to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the ...

Locating the armaments in the Caribbean island within range of the USA would have been a threat and victory rolled into one.