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.

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

This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than ...

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 ...

With the end of the Cold War, films depicting the last days of humanity, such as 1959’s “On the Beach,” or the 1983 TV drama “The Day After,” largely disappeared from the Hollywood playbook.

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 ...

Our Call: STREAM IT.Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War isn’t going to make you feel better about the fate of the current world, but it does a good job of showing just how we got here and ...

T HE INTENSIFYING rivalry between America and China has led many to speak of a second cold war. Others reject the analogy. We can say this: the world’s two largest economies seem to have little ...

Arctic military imagination predates the Cold War. In 1943, that imagination spawned the Kee Bird—a mythical creature. An early description appears in a poem by Aviation Cadet Warren M. Kniskern ...

U.S. ambassador to NATO on member spending expectations 06:27. Global military expenditure rose by 9.4% in 2024 to $2.7 trillion, the steepest yearly rise since the end of the Cold War, according ...