Robert McNamara

America’s worst secretary of defense never expressed a quiver of regret.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.

In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.

The poorly crafted disease metaphor often accompanies a bad outcome.

Considering the religious roots of the 1960s anti-militarist counterculture.

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.

Might a new approach to war memorials keep us out of future unnecessary wars?

For decades, the NFL has used patriotism to advance its interests. Now fans expect it to be something it never was.

The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.

Lodge's victory in the 1964 New Hampshire primary is a fascinating testament to the power of whim in American elections.

The Manhattan Project scientists tried to advocate for nuclear de-escalation-instead, they unwittingly abetted the Vietnam War.

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.