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Textbook Cold War Tales the Soviet Archives Quietly Overturned Seven common claims about the Cold War, from who started it to whether the spies mattered, tested against Venona and the documents opened after 1991. The INF Treaty Proved Arms Control Works Only When You Hold Cards The 1987 INF Treaty was won by deploying the missiles the protesters wanted stopped, and it died when Russia cheated. The story shows what treaties need. Israel Bombed Osirak in 1981 and the World Later Thanked It in Private Israel's 1981 raid on Iraq's reactor drew unanimous condemnation at the UN, then spared the 1991 coalition a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein. Iran's Nuclear Program From Natanz in 2002 to the JCPOA's End, a Timeline Two decades of Iran's nuclear program, dated and explained, showing a pattern of concealment discovered by outsiders and not volunteered by Tehran. Admiral Rickover Built the Navy That Made Nuclear Deterrence Survivable Hyman Rickover's insistence on standards produced the Nautilus, a nuclear navy and the submarines that made deterrence survivable. Mutual Assured Destruction Versus Missile Defense, the Debate Never Ended Conservatives call leaving Americans deliberately undefended against missiles a moral failure; this post compares the doctrines and argues for defense. Deterrence Fails When an Enemy Thinks You Will Not Pay the Price Deterrence is capability multiplied by credibility, and wars start when an adversary doubts the second term, as Korea, the Falklands and Kuwait show.