The 1945 meeting betwen the Allied partners underlined the differences between them, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" ...

Dead Hand was conceived to ensure Russia could strike back at its enemies, even if command centres were destroyed in a ...

Discover the Cold War missiles that advanced rocket propulsion, lightweight structures, human spaceflight, and much more.

A war is a clash of wills — a bloody collision between irreconcilable national interests. In the ancient world, it was easy to tell apart winners and losers. The defeated city — think of Troy in the ...

Now as the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, CNN will re-air its epic 24-part landmark series to give viewers a chance to see how the events of yesterday have shaped the ...

The U.S. and Soviet Union managed to avert nuclear catastrophe. Can Washington and Beijing do the same for A.I.?

"The scientific method gone mad - Dr. Strangelove, but it is not fiction." ...

Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

Champagne corks popped on December 3, 1989 as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president George H.W. Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the ...

Military personnel emerge from their foxholes to observe the atomic bomb explosion at the Nevada Proving Grounds, a nuclear testing site near Camp Desert Rock, Nevada on May 15th 1952. Source: U.S.