After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

Throughout the 45 years of the Cold War, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics one-upped each other in developing various military and scientific technologies. While the ...

This concept of great power competition, one born from a misreading of the Cold War, is our concern. It elides the violence ...

Gorbachev made three contributions that were fundamental to ending the Cold War. The first was to remove its ideological foundations. In a break with Soviet Marxism-Leninism, Gorbachev called in ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed on Christmas Day in 1991, a wave of euphoria washed over the West. Barely two years had elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and suddenly, the Cold War was over.

Laser tanks aren't just a sci-fi concept — they're very much real, and prototypes have existed since the Cold War era. From the 1970s until the collapse of the Soviet Union, a clandestine ...

After decades of Cold War tension and confrontation, Gorbachev struck nuclear arms deals with the United States and brought the Soviet Union closer to the West than at any point since World War Two.

Entering the field of Russian and Soviet studies as a graduate student more than a half century ago and later as a young professor in the Cold War years, I thought of our generation, in those ...

Martha Bayles’s review of Mark Pomar’s book “Cold War Radio” (Oct. 24 ... State Department was still pursuing detente with the Soviet Union. This triggered a memory.