The Nuclear War That Almost Was

What America’s current foreign policy-makers should learn from a week in 1983 when the Cold War nearly turned a thermonuclear hot.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Thirty years ago this week, the world almost ended. In what seems an alternative universe compared with the one we inhabit today, aging leaders in the Kremlin looked out their windows and saw the West preparing for war. In response, they ordered the Soviet Union’s conventional and strategic nuclear forces to go on alert and tasked the KGB with

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From ‘Red Line’ To Carte Blanche: The Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Ignores

A new report suggests the U.S. knowingly aided Saddam Hussein’s gas attacks on Iranians and Kurds in the 1980s.

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels

After an alleged chemical weapons attack reportedly killed up to 1,300 people in Syria last week, the Obama administration has announced it will consider a range of response options while U.S. ships head toward Syria in preparation for a possible full-blown military intervention. Although the U.S. decries chemical weapons use in Syria as an

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