Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

1️⃣ Cold War secrets: A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the height of tensions between the US and current-day Russia. The “city under the ice” gave rise to a new ...

Norway's proximity to the USSR in the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases.

U-2 pilots conducted a total of 102 overflights of the People’s Republic of China from 1962 to 1968. The U-2 “Dragon Lady” spy plane—one of the many products of the legendary Lockheed “Skunk Works” ...

Canada had little chance to choose sides in the Cold War. The country was seated beside the United States, one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world. During the Second World War ...

QUIZ: The end of the Cold War Revise and learn about the events taking place during the end of the Cold War from 1972-1991 with this quiz. The Cold War - exam preparation - Edexcel In your History ...

He was the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold War. Documents declassified in ... He lived the rest of his life under U.K. protection in the quiet town of Godalming, 40 miles (64 ...

With time, the public would learn more about the dramatic circumstances that brought Gordievsky to a new life in the ... and the West during "a critical time of the Cold War." ...