Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

In the 19th-century Concert of Europe, the great powers – Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and Russia – collectively managed European politics, balancing power to maintain stability. Their influence ...

The Cold War fueled a global race for technological and industrial dominance, leading to rapid fossil fuel expansion, nuclear testing, and high-emission military operations. Space exploration and ...

Stratospheric polar vortex changes still trigger brutal U.S. winter cold snaps and extreme weather despite a warming climate.

Ukraine's Defense Intelligence reveals a Russian disinformation operation spreading false nuclear narratives in the Middle ...

Alexandra Makarova's second feature portrays an exiled mother and painter who decides to return to her native Slovakia in the ...

For Americans over age 45, our childhoods were defined in part by the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. We grew up knowing the next war ...

A European football tie cancelled due to Cold War-era tensions was finally completed in Northern Ireland on Saturday, 65 years on from its original schedule in 1960. Glenavon FC hosted FC Erzgebirge ...

Explore the Cold War period, one of the most significant and tense times in modern history. Unlike traditional wars fought ...

Israel, the only undeclared nuclear power, started work on its N-weapons programme within years of the founding of the Jewish nation. One of its clandestine partners was apartheid-era South Africa.

The current period, technically the post-post-Cold War period, is marked by a US that is more unilateral and distant from its allies, skeptical of international institutions and arrangements, ...

Berlin saw the anti-Enlightenment movement in the 19th century as a reaction to the Enlightenment, and in the same way, we are now witnessing a reaction against the universalist, rationalistic ...