Britain’s “forgotten Cold War warriors” have called for recognition of their part in undertaking life-and-death missions in hostile environments following the Second World War. Their plea ...

October 1990 – East and West Germany unite after intensive six-power negotiations in which Gorbachev plays a key role. The Soviet parliament approves plan to abandon Communist central planning ...

Protesters outside Büchel Air Base want the government to tell the United States to get its nuclear weapons out of Germany. But, with a war raging in Europe, they aren't getting much attention ...

Kunakhovich presents a richly detailed chronicle of the relations between political and cultural actors in the East German city of Leipzig and the Polish city of Krakow during the Cold War. He shows ...

At first glimpse, it certainly bore all the signs of a U.S.-Soviet deal. First the news broke that Premier Khrushchev, in a se cret letter to President Kennedy, had agreed to remove the biggest ...

The biggest issue in the cold war is Germany—whether to rearm it, how to unite it. For a month or more, Western diplomacy had been becalmed by inertia and irresolution, while the loosening ...

This video reveals the Cold War motivations, the technological feats, and the ultimate reasons for its cancellation. Mustard Posted: June 20, 2025 | Last updated: June 20, 2025 ...

Foreign Policy. Putin, world react to death of Gorbachev, who helped end the Cold War “It was easy to understand why so many worldwide held him in such high esteem,” President Biden said.

UNRRA was a Soviet-Western collaboration, an idealistic internationalist organisation that predated the cold war split. UNRRA viewed the DPs as predominantly “victims of nazism”.

At the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in that other space race: spy satellites. The rapid improvements in these eyes in the sky is credited by some with ...

Much activity occurred at Thule Air Base, the northernmost outpost, which was massively expanded in 1951 when a U.S. Navy armada delivered a 12,000-person contingent and 300,000 tons of cargo in a ...