The 1945 meeting betwen the Allied partners underlined the differences between them, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming decades between two global ...

The video examines Mexico's Dirty War, a fourteen-year campaign during the Cold War in which the PRI government and security ...

During the 1950s, American and Soviet engineers experimented with an extraordinary idea: launching fully armed fighter jets directly into the sky without using an airfield. Known as Zero-Length Launch ...

Now as the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, CNN will re-air its epic 24-part landmark series to give viewers a chance to see how the events of yesterday have shaped the ...

Analyze the factors that shaped U.S. strategy during the Cold War CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, nonpartisan resources and programming to help high school and ...

Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

U.S. President Joe Biden, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, Nov. 14, 2022, in Nusa Dua, in Bali, Indonesia. In ...

For four decades, Castro stood at the center of a dangerous game for political pre-eminence in the Third World.

From the late '40s to the early '90s, the Soviet Union and the United States militaries were locked in a rivalry for technological superiority. With the threat of nuclear weapons from both sides ...

A secret Cold War drilling operation for a project meant to house nuclear weapons produced some samples that scientists are still learning from today.