The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of ...

In 1946, less than a year after the end of World War Two, Britain's wartime leader sounded an urgent warning about the Soviet threat to the West.

The Cold War, as we are taught, was an existential struggle between two irreconcilable systems: Communism vs. democratic capitalism. A worldwide conflict emerged from the clash over Eastern Europe’s ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...

A punchy history tour of iconic artillery, from early quick-firing field guns to WWII superweapons and Cold War ...

Between 1953 and 1977, the U.S. and Iran had a mostly cordial relationship. During the 1960s, the U.S. assisted Iran in creating its nuclear program, providing a nuclear reactor and significant ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has caused its share of intellectual confusion. Putin has never coherently or consistently explained his intentions, and Russia’s ...