The scale of irregular violence surrounding the better known clashes between Cold War superpowers is staggering. U.K. post-punk band Gang of Four memorialized the omnipresence of irregular ...

Explore the Cold War period, one of the most significant and tense times in modern history. Unlike traditional wars fought ...

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in hopes they would help end the Vietnam War. He looks back on his early days as a national security analyst in The Doomsday Machine.

Decades later, with the release of declassified documents, we now know the Soviets were seconds away from launching World War III, a consequence of either false alarms or Cold War paranoia.

Let’s not confuse the Cold War of the 1950s with what’s happening today Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk in Beijing on Feb. 4. (Alexei Druzhinin ...

Photo Essay: Out In The Cold. 2 minute read. Bill Saporito. December 17, 2001 12:00 AM EST. Y ...

Cold War conservatism is dead—and in its place, ... Condoleezza Rice, in a 2000 essay laying out his foreign-policy vision. For Rice and Bush, the benefits of such trends were self-evident. ...

His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and completely and utterly not true.

The threat of nuclear war has dangled over humankind for much too long. We have survived so far through luck and brinkmanship. But the old, limited safeguards that kept the Cold War cold are long ...

The post-Cold War order ultimately proved disastrous for American liberalism: ... for reasons usefully expounded by Julian Waller in a 2022 essay for American Affairs.

C hess since the cold war has enjoyed greater freedom but a lower profile. When Kasparov was challenged in London by a British grandmaster, Nigel Short, in 1993, there was none of the symbolism that ...

American and British intelligence used a secret relationship with the founder of a Swiss encryption company to help them spy during the Cold War, newly released documents analysed by the BBC reveal.