Richard Nixon

Cold War Intelligence

Everyone who has ever read a spy novel knows the basic plot line. A scientist has developed a formula, or intelligence operative has obtained secret plans or a roll or film. Read more

Richard Nixon

The German and Austrian Jews of the Allied Armies

By Steven Karras

Once they escaped from Nazi-dominated Europe, hundreds of German and Austrian Jews joined the American and British military to help bring an end to the Nazis’ reign of terror. Read more

Richard Nixon

The Real Hirohito/Emperor Showa

He was the longest-reigning monarch and head of state in the 20th century, and the third-longest in history behind King Louis XIV of France (72 years) and England’s Queen Victoria (64 years). Read more

Richard Nixon

The Cuban Missile Crisis: On the Brink of Nuclear War

For 13 tension-filled days in October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear war than it has ever come before or since. Read more

Richard Nixon

Fiasco at the Bay of Pigs

On the morning of April 18, 1961, readers of the New York Times awoke to a startling headline: “Anti-Castro Units Land in Cuba; Report Fighting at Beachhead; Rusk Says U.S. Read more

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The Nightmare Mission Into Laos: Operation Lam Son 719

The South Vietnamese raid into the Laotian panhandle in February 1971 only confirmed what everyone already knew. Read more