On this day in 1981, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union open talks to reduce their intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe.

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades. One Soviet ...

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...

China said it “respects” the independence of the former Soviet Union states and that its position is “unchanged,” after the nation’s diplomat to France sparked a firestorm in Europe by questioning ...

Say what you will about the Soviet Communist Party leaders — they were no saints, but they weren't suicidal and they fully ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Cold War delivered some fascinating technology and one of the most intriguing eras in American history. The Cold War is widely regarded as the “golden age” of ...

Cold War II. Cold War 2.0. The New Cold War. The air in Washington is thick with terms and phrases that reflect an increasingly common belief that the United States finds itself in a titanic struggle ...

Russia today is like a Potemkin hegemon —- a phantom political power desperate to hide its decline. Once the unchallenged leader of both the South Caucasus and the entire former Soviet Union, Russia ...

Podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan laid out his nightmare vision of a “Soviet Union-style gulag” situation in the United States where people are tried and convicted for refusing to use people’s ...

US experts Norman Roule and Mark Dubowitz predict the Iranian regime's collapse, drawing parallels to the Soviet Union's ...