I would know. I recently spent three deranged weeks binge-watching all six seasons of The Americans, the Cold War thriller ...

The Cold War emerged at the end of World War II and lasted until the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991.

Europe’s panicked response to the shift in Washington’s priorities raises a number of intriguing questions, not least why its ...

Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...

‘Chess’, writes Johnson, ‘was a perfect match for the peculiarities of Cold War culture: abstract purism ... pro-West upstart who, during glasnost, tested the limits of the Soviet chess front. But the ...

During the Cold War, the US poured support into Arctic military outposts and climate research amid fears of a Russian ...

Dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes should be independent of the United States—and so should their media sources.

Historically, Russia has responded to strength, not appeasement. As US diplomat and historian George Kennan famously stated ...

The cold war left a lasting legacy across the entire world - this is what remains of that era in and around Glasgow.When we ...