Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

Scientists at the time were baffled ... patterns of the Cold War era may have faded into history, but their impact continues to resonate today. The lessons learned from this period of crisis ...

John le Carré had it easy during the Cold War. But how do we ... to hark back to an earlier time, when Russia and America were at loggerheads; wasn’t that period long gone?

The Cold War is the title given to the period of tension between the two superpowers ... it spread to Asia and even into Space! At the same time the USA and the USSR greatly increased their ...

The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming decades between two global superpowers. The United ...

Scientists spot mesmerizing creatures after iceberg snaps off ice shelf ...

Norway's proximity to the USSR during the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases for planes and ships. Tensions with Russia have brought the bunkers ...