Since the beginning of the Cold War, American society and culture have been affected by the desire to defend the nation against nuclear holocaust. Billions of dollars have been spent on researching, developing, and deploying a defense against missile...

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposal by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983[1] to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative...

Today is Friday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2007. There are 283 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry made his famous call for American independence from Britain, telling the Virginia Provincial Convention, "Give me liberty, or give...

Military Power: When Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that Army tours in Iraq would be extended to 15 months from 12, it became clear that more than our will is atrophying.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the war is lost. He and his fellow Democrats...

Foreign Relations: Secretary of State Rice ventures to Moscow this week to convince an ambitious President Putin that American self-defense is not a threat to the new imperial Russia. Isn't this where we came in?It is not a kindler and gentler Russia that Dr. Rice...

Campaign '08: Pledging to seek audiences with the great thugs of our time, Barack Obama would imitate Neville Chamberlain, not the man who won the Cold War and freed millions from communist slavery.Based on Obama's statements at the YouTube debate, maybe Ted Kennedy was right...