In October 1962 our world came very close to a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now known as ...

A reactor in Tehran is a monument to the U.S. relationship with Iran when the country was led by a secular, pro-Western ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union, once a powerful force in technological development, found itself far behind the United States ...

Speak plainly!” Russian President Vladimir Putin snapped at his foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, at a televised ...

The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, by nearly 50 nations in California. Signed at the historic Veterans’ ...

During the Cold War, which lasted from roughly 1947 to 1991, several notable Soviet citizens defected to the United States. Each defection was a victory of sorts in the war of ideological ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

Three minutes, a football and a biscuit. These are all a president of the United States needs to start nuclear war. During a ...

The fact that Europe is spending more on its own defense is in many ways good news for Americans. Thanks to the continent’s ...

Created in the waning years of the Cold War, the new Watson School of International and Public Affairs continues its history ...

The greatest team in swimming history is not hard to decipher. It's the 1976 United States squad that dominated the Olympics ...