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

A chilling map from the Cold War era shows how a nuclear attack on the US would have killed up to 75% of the population in the most severely affected fallout zones ...

A 1957 map shows that Soviet visitors were barred from most of New York’s Long Island—and the entire state of Washington. Areas marked in red were off limits to Soviet visitors as of November ...

This map was part of a massive Cold War effort by the Soviets. Over five decades — beginning with World War II until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 — it produced more than a million ...