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Today’s nuclear landscape is more precarious than during the Cold War July 3, 2025 at 5:16 p.m. EDT1 minute ago This page lists a series of articles by experts from the Federation of American ...

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This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a ...