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The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of an era with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the dissolution of the USSR, and ...

The radio signal first started broadcasting on February 28, about 12 hours after the United States and Israel began bombing Iran. On a scratchy shortwave signal almost twice a day -- in the early ...

The Cold War spy thriller is one of Hollywood's favorite genres. But how much do we know about the rules that real world spies had to follow during the Cold War? You might be surprised. Donald Trump ...

Regarding “The Cold War’s Last Man Standing” (Weekend Interview, Feb. 14): Tunku Varadarajan says that Polish hero Lech Walesa may be the last man standing among those leaders who caused the demise of ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Brazil does not want a "new Cold War", President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Sunday, urging the Trump administration to treat all countries equally ahead of a trip ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), a nuclear-powered supercarrier which is the largest aircraft carrier in the world, is anchored in the Bay of Palma after arriving to Palma de Mallorca on October 3, ...

It’s not exactly luxury living but a Cold War-era bunker in rural Pennsylvania is listed as an “exceptionally rare opportunity.” Built in 1968, the 5,800-square-foot building (4,800-square-feet below ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the final remaining bilateral agreement limiting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expired on February 5, closing a chapter that ...