WILLIAM HURST is Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development and Co-Director of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University ...

Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Instead, the MiG-25 was primarily used for aerial interception missions. Belenko also offered the United States an in-depth understanding of the Soviet Air Force culture.

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

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

President Donald Trump was the dominant figure at the latest NATO summit. But the president was easy to manipulate. Basking in the praise of his European supplicants, Trump declar ...

There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations, both at its headquarters in New York and ...

Twice in my lifetime, that I am aware of, a massive exchange of nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union was narrowly averted because a single, lower-ranking officer hesitated; ...