Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

Cold War: Improved Balance. 3 minute read. TIME. December 27, 1963 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... McNamara, impressive as usual, ticked off a few awesome facts of U.S. nuclear power: ...

And if balance-of-power thinking continues, ... proliferation elsewhere have been stabilizing rather than destabilizing—MAD certainly worked in preventing the Cold War from becoming hot.

William Taylor, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Vice President of Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace discusses the Ukraine war and heavy weapons aid. He speaks with with ...

Washington wanted to replace a European system of balance of power and spheres of influence with an effort to allow Europeans to freely ... The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 by Vladislav ...