cold war, ronald reagan, soviet union, strategic defense initiative
On March 30, 1981, only 69 days after U.S. President Reagan took office for his first term, he was shot by a gunman. Out of 45 U.S. presidents, nine have been the targets of assassination. Four of the presidents died, while five survived the attempts on their lives. He was among them. He took office ...
Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have changed rainfall patterns thousands of miles from the detonation sites, new research has revealed. Scientists at the University of Reading have researched how the electric charge released by radiation from the test detonations, carried out predominantly by the U.S. and Soviet Union in the 1950s and ...
More than 1 million people in the Chinese capital of Beijing today live in an underground city. This was built as a bomb shelter during the Cold War era. At that time, the Chinese government was worried that Russians might start dropping bombs. As a consequence, Beijing built several underground shelters as a last resort ...
A New Cold War is brewing in China. Recently, the Chinese blogtalk “Voice of Hope” revealed the contents of an internal document produced by the Development and Research Center of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. The report is authored by Wu Sikang, the director of the Development and Research Center, ...