The world came within minutes of nuclear war more than once. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1983 Petrov incident show how ...

The past decade and a half has seen upheaval across the globe. The 2008 financial crisis and its fallout, the COVID-19 pandemic and major regional conflicts in Sudan, the Middle East, Ukraine and ...

Is the contest in the world today between democracies and authoritarian societies an updated version of the contest between capitalism and communism? It has been clear for over three decades that we ...

Western leaders are deeply reluctant to acknowledge the obvious: we are already enmeshed in a new Cold War. More precisely, the authoritarian regimes in Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, along with ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

The intensifying rivalry between America and China has led to much talk of a new cold war. Some say that is going too far, but the two do seem now to have little space for co-operation and rather more ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a new partnership that includes a vow of mutual aid if either country is attacked, during a Wednesday summit that came as ...

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and ...

The Day After imagined a nuclear attack on the U.S. and the dystopian aftermath of a crumbling society. The Day After imagined a nuclear attack on the U.S. and the dystopian aftermath of a crumbling ...