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Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

India's Nuclear Test 'Failure' Poses Threat To Obama's Nonproliferation Plans

Global Post | Posted 09.30.2009 | World


NEW DELHI, India Days before President Barack Obama told the United Nations that he hoped to push through a universal treaty to ban all nuclear weapon...

Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics


Daniel Ellsberg

I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

An American Scientist, the Soviets and the H-Bomb

Robert S. Norris | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics


Robert S. Norris

The Soviet Union may have obtained the key H-bomb secret ("radiation implosion") through espionage from an American spy at Los Alamos laboratory in the 1950s.

Why College Students Are Having Less Sex

Newsweek | Jennie Yabroff | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


When asked to estimate how many sexual partners their peers had had during the past schoolyear, college students guessed three times the number of par...