Ukraine’s fate is in the hands of the world’s three superpowers: China, Russia, and the United States. To glimpse Ukraine’s future, we should look at how past superpower conflicts ended. Throughout ...

On Nov. 12, 2024, the National Cold War Center at Blytheville announced a partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center in an effort to preserve the story of the Cold War. The Washington-based center, ...

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Hal Brands, the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International ...

In this alternate history scenario, the United States loses the Cold War, allowing Russia and China to become the dominant ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Cold War was an ideological conflict between the capitalist United States and the communist ...

When U.S. policymakers and commentators need guidance, they habitually turn to the Cold War. They mine its events for lessons, consult its characters for advice, and compare its features to the ...

Is the world entering a new cold war? Our answer is yes and no. Yes if we mean a protracted international rivalry, for cold wars in this sense are as old as history itself. Some became hot, some ...

PHOENIX - The crisis in Ukraine has brought back many memories of the Cold War and the fears of nuclear winter, and the relics of that era are still around us. We're taking a rare look into Arizona's ...

A vintage Cold War air raid siren that stood atop a tower in a Seattle park for more than 70 years remains in the hands of a private salvage yard in Kent. And that’s where the man who now owns the ...

Homing in on 1985, dubbed by the New York Times “the year of the spy,” after dozens of American government moles working for everyone from the CIA to the U.S. Navy were arrested for espionage, Atkins’ ...

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date . . . nor was any item of the news, nor any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to ...

Longtime Bowdoin history professor Allen Wells recasts the recent history of Latin America as a battle of democracy vs. dictatorship, rather than left vs. right. “When we think of Latin America, the ...