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

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

Documents from the 1950s and 1960s show how the Pentagon poured support into climate and cold-region research to boost the ...

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

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

The structural dynamics of the post-Cold War order progressively created the preconditions for the war in Ukraine. NATO’s relentless eastward expansion, though framed as the desirable expansion ...

President Trump says the U.S. has spent $350 billion on the war in Ukraine—a figure that is at odds with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s tally, as well as U.S. government agencies and ...

Gorbachev’s attempt to reform Russia’s struggling economic, social, and political systems through his Glasnost (openness) and Perestroika (restructuring) initiatives failed. This was largely due to ...

said it was the biggest increase in defence spending since the Cold War. He also pledged to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP in the next parliament, should he win the next general election.

“Early Mars has historically been thought of as either ‘cold and dry’ or ‘warm and wet,’” says Alberto Fairén, an astrobiologist at the Center for Astrobiology in Madrid and at ...