The efforts of volunteers who would have monitored nuclear explosions and fallout from a suburban bunker if the Cold War had ...

From the outbreak of the Korean War to NATO’s expansion, 1950 marked the Cold War’s first great turning point. The balance of ...

As the Moscow-Kaliningrad train approached Lithuania, the car attendant beckoned to passengers in Russian: "I'm closing the ...

Vladimir Putin has endorsed the withdrawal from the 2000 plutonium disposal agreement with the US, citing significant shifts ...

When WW2 ends the former Allies find themselves at odds with each other over ideological and economic world domination. In an ...

The overall theme of the early part of the Cold War was that of subterfuge — with scientific missions often providing excellent cover for placing missiles right on the USSR’s doorstep.

The Cold War with Russia is distant history now but for those that remember that era, was it all worth it? It seemed that the anxiety of potential nuclear annihilation must have cast a shadow on ...

Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the ...

Russia and the US have reignited global fears of a new nuclear arms race as Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump announce fresh ...

There has been renewed focus on nuclear arsenals after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, James C Reynolds and Maryam ...