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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 rese...
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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 fro...
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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 L...
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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 wh...
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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...
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NASA's new
administrator, Michael
Griffin
, who was sworn in on April 14, 2005, overruled the agency's top safety officer and chief engineer and directed that the July 2006 launch of the space sh...
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Poland said Friday it has reached an agreement in principle with the United States on plans to install a missile defense system on Polish territory.Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says that ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States supports
modernizing Poland's air defenses, a key Polish demand for
hosting part of a planned missile defense system, U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza R...
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Time magazine made Vladimir Putin its Man of the Year. Chalk it up as nostalgia for the Cold War, when America was great and a working man in a state like Michigan had two cars, a nice house, a cou...
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The ghost of Ronald Reagan hung heavily over the Republican presidential candidates as they faced off in their suddenly narrowed field Wednesday at the Reagan Library. Surely every Republican old e...
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In this pungent and partisan book, John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of history at Yale University, comes not only to bury the Cold War but to praise it—as a conflict freighted with fear that &#...
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Today in history - March 23
