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

This fundamental debate has returned to American politics, more than three decades after the Cold War, which birthed the modern foreign-aid regime, and more than three years after the withdrawal ...

A fallout shelter sign in New York City, New York, January 16, 2018. A doomsday prepper has compiled a map of fallout shelters across the United States.

In 1953, while Nash was at M.I.T., FBI agents went after three members of the university's math department who previously had been members of the Communist Party.

None of us should want to unilaterally disarm and surrender to America’s enemies in the war of ideas and great contest of soft-power influence. When our critics swear this is all anti-American ...

The 45-year standoff between the West and the U.S.S.R. ended when the Soviet Union dissolved. Some say another could be starting as tensions with Russia rise.

However, now that the Cold War is over, it begs the question of how much the average American truly knows about this topic. Unfortunately, many would be challenged to answer these simple questions ...

The lessons from the Cold War’s record of state censorship of ideas are clear. Nuanced historical truth cannot thrive or die based on its political usefulness to the current administration.

Pedantic scholars may say the new Cold War actually began with Donald Trump’s election in November 2016, or his initial imposition of tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels, many ...

For much of the Cold War, George F. Kennan was America's best-known diplomat and a leading Soviet scholar. His reputation was based in large part on the 1947 essay he wrote on containment, the ...