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 ...

Across the remote plains of the northern United States, hundreds of underground missile silos remain active decades after the Cold War. Built as part of America’s nuclear deterrent, the facilities ...

In 1946, less than a year after the end of World War Two, Britain's wartime leader sounded an urgent warning about the Soviet threat to the West.

The story of how an ABC film in 1983 changed President Reagan's mind about the threat of nuclear annihilation.

The military-industrial complex describes the powerful relationship that developed between the U.S. military, defense contractors, and political institutions during the Cold War. The system grew from ...

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 ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

Cold War movies like The Manchurian Candidate and The Lives of Others are, sadly, more relevant than ever in today's highly ...

"The current questioning of nuclear deterrence implies something other than its withering away. There is no post-nuclear strategy. . . .[T]he nuclear instrument remains the central element in the ...

The rise of China as a global power has cast a shadow over U.S. foreign policy. For nearly a decade, elected leaders from both major political parties have described China as a sinister threat to ...