Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

The Russian-Eurasian Student Organization is hosting a lecture by Professor Katherine Hill that explores the power words in shaping opinion and inciting action.

Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

Nena is one of the greatest one-hit wonders of the Cold War era, and “99 Luftballons” is a long-standing fan favorite among pop songs of that era. Honestly, this band deserved so much more ...

Just south of Tucson, the Titan Missile Museum offers a rare glimpse into Cold War history — and the chilling reality of nuclear deterrence.

The U.S. Coast Guard doesn't have the Navy's heavily armed warships, but during the Cold War some Coast Guard ships were ...

Norway's proximity to the USSR during the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases for planes and ships. Tensions with Russia have brought the bunkers ...

The Cold War was a war of armaments and ideologies—but it was also a war of words, fought in classrooms, libraries, and on the printed page. As part of its strategy to win hearts and minds in ...

A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers ...

As head of the shadowy Office of Policy Coordination (OPC, later the Directorate of Plans), Wisner invented and perfected many of the techniques, objectives and protocols of Cold War propaganda ...