Young men graduating from high school in the mid-1960s had to choose between enrolling in college or most likely, being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sprawling Soviet Cold War bunker built to withstand a 20-kilotonne nuclear blast but abandoned for decades is to be transformed into Europe's newest tourist attraction.

Drawing on archival documents from several former Soviet republics and from the United States, this highly persuasive work studies defection as an important element of the Cold War. The United States ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

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 ...