Explore the Cold War period, one of the most significant and tense times in modern history. Unlike traditional wars fought ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

And so the second half of the Cold War is then marked by this period of nuclear arsenals getting smaller, of arms control. And that was the world that we were in for about 20 years after the end ...

As the world holds its breath over the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other current affairs, comparisons are inevitably being made with the Cold War era, a period of geopolitical tension between ...

No sooner had World War II ended, then another conflict began. This was the Cold War – an ideological battle between the United States and the Soviet Union and its allies that would last roughly ...

I have read several letters concerning the lack of recognition of those who served in the military during the "Cold War.” This is the period between Sept. 2, 1945, and Dec. 26, 1991. While I ...

Now vets want the government to pass a law requiring the VA recognize and treat illnesses resulting from exposure: the Cold War Period Veterans Nuclear Technicians Act.

The post-Cold War order ultimately proved disastrous for American ... s archaic constitutional institutions could allow right-wing populism to instantiate minority rule over an extended period.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to nuclear expert James Acton from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the dangers of what is being called the new nuclear age.