Living with the constant fear that nuclear war could break out at any second was just a fact of life that everyone had to ...

In 1947, the Cold War stopped being a looming rivalry and began taking shape as a system of doctrines, spy networks, covert ...

When students begin learning about the Cold War, they often encounter the most dramatic moments first: the Berlin Wall, ...

The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of an era with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the dissolution of the USSR, and ...

A US view of the cold war world, 1950, showing the fearsome power of the USSR. Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for ...

Historic submarines are surprisingly similar to those deployed by today's Navy and can provide an unprecedented look into ...

There was a time when Munich really mattered. For a generation after the Cold War, the annual Munich Security Conference was a mecca for leaders of a Europe whole and free, a confab for the Western ...

At the height of Cold War suspicion, two rival superpowers launched their spacecraft hours apart and docked in orbit, sharing ...