The idea that there can be a winner in a nuclear exchange rests on several assumptions: that the conflict can be contained, ...

Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Soviet H-bomb who later won the Nobel Peace Prize for his criticism of the Communist ...

Moderation in all things is our deliverance from the strife and upheaval of extremism. The Aristotelian means recognizes that ...

Napoleon Bonaparte once received some memorable words of advice from that wily French diplomat and statesman Charles Maurice ...

Surrounded by Coalition forces and desperate for victory, Napoleon gambled everything at Leipzig. The result was a crushing blow that ended his dominance over Europe.

Following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo in 1815, the world enjoyed 99 years of relative peace (if one excludes the ...