April 15, 2014 - 3:58 pm in Quick HistoryNixon’s MadMan Theory – So Crazy it Just Might Work. UPDATE: It Didn’t
During the midst of the Cold War, the decades long tension between the US and Russia, President Richard Nixon came up with a foreign policy idea that some would call reckless and others would call...mad.…
April 2, 2014 - 2:33 pm in Quick HistoryThe Man Who Saved the World, Stanislav Petrov
Man's power to destroy the world is a mostly modern capability. In today's age of nuclear weaponry, as a legacy of the Cold War we live with the concept of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) - it's…
