At the height of the Cold War, Czechoslovakia embarked on a tank project that could have changed the course of military ...

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Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...

The rift, provoked by the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis in Russian custody, was the latest in a series of spats that ...

COLD WAR: An Assist from Moscow. 3 minute read. TIME. March 9, 1959 12:00 AM GMT-5. I n the four years since Nikita Khrushchev, that gregarious, loquacious and energetic fellow, took command in ...

Global peacekeeping is a tricky task, but who knew all it would take to end the Cold War was for Billy Joel to lose his rag?

After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 by Vladislav Zubok, Pelican £25, 544 pages. Charles Clover is FT’s security & defence correspondent and a former Moscow bureau chief.

Despite suffering over 1 million casualties, pounding Ukrainian cities nightly with missiles and drones, and committing ...

“The threat we face is more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time since the Cold War," Starmer told workers and journalists ... developed its drone technology to counter ...

Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...