Roughly 4,000 service members helped clean up the Enewetak Atoll from nuclear tests. Many now have ailments they think result from the work, but the government won’t provide health care. By Dave Philipps.

One of the many downsides of Donald Trump’s election is having people like Steve Bannon working in the White House. However, if Clinton had won… By Ron Chusid.

“Like some Tolkein-esque villain, the Democrats would literally forge the weapon that would undo them.” By Dr. Bones.

CIA employees are not staging a coup against Donald Trump. By Philip Giraldi.

It seems so strange, twenty-seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to be living through a new Cold War with (as it happens, capitalist) Russia… By Gary Leupp.

The Democrat has been studying election presentations, including reports on where she underperformed. By Gabriel Debenedetti.

Few behaviors are more dangerous than escalating tensions between these two nuclear-armed powers. By Glenn Greenwald.

History’s spookiest spook. By Andy Wright.

Dr Udo Ulfkotte, the former German newspaper editor whose bestselling book exposed how the CIA controls German media, has been found dead. By Baxter Dmitry.

History After “the End of History.” The fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989 abruptly ended one historical era and inaugurated another… By Andrew J. Bacevich.

In which the snake begins eating itself. By Adam Johnson.

How an 89-year-old cold warrior became America’s nuclear conscience. By John F. Harris and Bryan Bender.

And the U.S. is in the unaccustomed position of being seriously behind its adversaries. By Brad Allenby and Joel Garreau, co-directors of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative.

The president’s move to punish Russia has scrambled partisan lines. By David A. Graham.

False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid. By Glenn Greenwald.

Nearly a decade and a half after the Iraq-WMD faceplant, the American press is again asked to co-sign a dubious intelligence assessment. By Matt Taibbi.

Today, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI released a report alleging Russian hacking. The report itself is only five and a half pages long in large print...

Anyone too young to remember HUAC and the destruction the Cold War wrought should study up. We are a few short steps away from both.  By Patrick Lawrence.

Last Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump issued a few statements (guess where) about America's military, with this statement as a kicker: "The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its sense regarding nukes." Though much remains to be seen about how Trump's tweets will actually translate into policy, it seems likely that nuclear war will be back on the table. Are we going to roll back decades of policy and technology to return to the Atomic Age?

How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches. By Hunter Oatman-Stanford.