During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

In 1991 the Soviet Union split up and the Cold War ended. In February 1945, the leaders of the UK, America and the Soviet Union met in Yalta in the Crimean region of the Soviet Union. After ...

Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? Drawing on his own experience of living in the Soviet Union for the first 30 years of his life, the author traces the origins of the ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ... and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming decades between two global superpowers.

When we think about the Cold War, we often think about ... various geopolitical conflicts between 1945 and the 1980s. Although the "war" between the USA and USSR never got directly "hot", it ...

Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb ... U.S.S.R., and they spent the years after 1945 racing to develop ever ...

The nuclear tests conducted by the United States and the then USSR (present day Russia) during the Cold War-era have left ...

Canada was thrust into the Cold War world quickly and unexpectedly. In September 1945, a young Russian named Igor Gouzenko walked into the newsroom of the Ottawa Citizen and announced he had proof ...

The Cold War at Home” was the subject of a special Sweetwater County Historical Museum presentation at the Green River High ...