The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging... Read More
Raymond L. Garthoff, the author of Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan (revised edition, 1994), is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. From the...