Kennedy reached out to the jailed Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960 presidential campaign, civil rights were not a major concern for the Kennedy administration. Rather, Cold War politics ...

Mr. Carlson, father of conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, defended the VOA in the years before President Trump’s order to dismantle the broadcaster.

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky passed intelligence to the British spy agency MI6, sharing secrets that ...

Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle for global supremacy emerged: the Cold War. One side was led by the USA, the other by the Soviet Union - the two superpowers. The Soviet Union led ...

The global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. BBC Two's new Cold War Season explores the cultural and political impact of a conflict that divided the world.