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.

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.

The original Cold War ended in December 1991 with the disintegration of the Soviet Union. But the idea that the world is witnessing the early phases of a new cold war—this time, a strategic ...

The second key distinction between this century’s US-China competition and last century’s Cold War is that the American economy is more intertwined with China than it was with the Soviet Union.

The Myth of Reagan’s Cold War Toughness Haunts American Foreign Policy Hawks may claim that uncompromising defense policies won the Cold War. But his pursuit of peace was more important.