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Cold War Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan at a Soviet/US Summit in 1985

Cold War: Origins, combatants and leaders

By Callum McKelvie published

Reference The Cold War was a decades-long diplomatic and military standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States

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Jimmy Doolittle, the man in charge of the raid

Doolittle Raid: America's WWII attack on Tokyo

By Michael E. Haskew published

Reference In 1942, US bombers attacked Japan's capital in retribution for the Pearl Harbor attack.

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Mikoyan MiG-31K fighter jets with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles fly over Moscow's Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on May 09, 2018. Russia has claimed it used these missiles for the first time in combat with Ukraine.

Russia strikes Ukraine with new hypersonic missiles: Here's how they work.

By Tom Metcalfe published

Russia claims to have used its Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time, in its invasion of Ukraine. Here's why these super-fast weapons are so concerning.

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A U.S. Titan nuclear missile. Mutual assured destruction is the concept of nuclear superpowers being able to completely destroy each other.

What is mutual assured destruction?

By Tom Metcalfe published

Reference 'Mutual assured destruction is the concept that two superpowers can annihilate each other with nuclear weapons.

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USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor, 1941

The Pacific War: WWII in the East

By Michael E. Haskew published

Reference The Pacific War was a major theater of World War II that was fought between the Allies and Imperial Japan, across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Southeast Asia and Oceania.

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How many nuclear weapons exist?

By Joe Phelan published

Answers to how many nuclear weapons exist, who has them and how powerful are they.

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Korean Girl and Boy By Tank

Korean War: Causes, combatants and key battles

By Michael E. Haskew published

Reference The Korean War, 1950-1953, began with the communist North Korean invasion of South Korea and was halted by an armistice without a formal peace treaty.

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The USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941.

Pearl Harbor: Surprise attack that brought US into World War II

By Michael E. Haskew, Jonathan Gordon published

Reference The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii devastated US naval power in the Pacific and precipitated America’s entry into World War II.

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A picture taken on May 8, 2021 shows a sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) at the entrance of their headquarters in Geneva

Ukraine should destroy 'high-threat' pathogens, WHO says

By Nicoletta Lanese published

The measure would prevent potential spills, the agency says.

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Ivy Mike was the first "true" hydrogen bomb tested by the United States. This 10.4 megaton explosion obliterated Elugelab, the island it was detonated on in the Eniwetok Atoll.

The 9 most powerful nuclear weapon explosions

By Owen Jarus published

REFERENCE Here's a look at the most powerful nuclear weapons ever detonated — specifically explosions that exceeded 10 megatons.

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