Gentle Reminder. McNamara, impressive as usual, ticked off a few awesome facts of U.S. nuclear power: more than 2,000 atomic warheads ready in case of war, a 100% increase in two years ...

But the Cold War had not yet thawed ... Henry Kissinger managed the American response with an eye on the overall balance of power. Washington had historically backed Israel, while Moscow ...

And if balance-of-power thinking continues ... rather than destabilizing—MAD certainly worked in preventing the Cold War from becoming hot. While there can be no guarantee that the same result ...

At once, the balance of power shifted. Truman acted aggressively ... Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

During the Cold War, the jet engine became a lucrative export and a powerful piece of military hardware, but selling to the wrong buyer could alter the balance of power.

For decades, the defining conflict in the region was a “cold war” between Iran and ... These developments illustrate the timeless logic of balance-of-power politics as regional actors adapt ...