Cuban Missile Crisis is based on major conflict between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which was over Soviet-supplied missile installations in Cuba. It was regarded as the world's closest approach to nuclear war. In 1960 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev began ...

Napoleon: Napoleon is Orwell's chief villain in Animal Farm. The name Napoleon is very coincidental since Napoleon, the dictator of France, was thought by many to be the Anti-Christ. Napoleon, the pig, is really the central character on the farm. Obviously a metaphor for Stalin, Comrade Napoleon re...

In the years immediately following World War II, the United States was confronted with an ill equipped submarine force unprepared to face the new challenges of the Cold War. In response to the emerging threat, the United States Navy developed the Skipjack class of nuclear powered submarines. Among...