The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address ...

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the ...

In 1968, Star Trek made one of its most obvious comments on the Cold War in “A Private Little War,” an episode written about the Vietnam War. Once again, the Federation and the Klingons ...

The global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. BBC Two's new Cold War Season explores the cultural and political impact of a conflict that divided the world.

The United States has the smallest defense budget in nearly 100 years. If the U.S. is in a cold war, it seems to be cheaper and less urgent than the last.

Say what you will about the centrally planned economies of the Soviet bloc during the Cold War, but their designs ... The meter was gutted to make room for the clockworks, which is an off-the ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

Post-WWII, tension between the USA and the Soviet Union led to a worldwide Cold War. Reasons for this included: ideological differences, problems in Germany, the arms race and the Korean War.

The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming decades between two global superpowers. The United ...

But Hitler's Nazi menace would soon be replaced by a new threat to world peace as the Soviet Union and the United States faced off in the Cold War. Canada was thrust into the Cold War world ...