American historian Amy Knight has been studying Russian elites for decades. She spent 18 years at the U.S. Library of ...

Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev wanted a ... of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) on nuclear weapons. But the Cold War had not yet thawed, and détente would only become possible when ...

Russia is hiking state spending on national defence by a quarter in 2025 to 6.3% of gross domestic product (GDP), the highest ...

It was the biggest such expulsion since the height of the Cold War era and the hostilities ... rapidly build and stockpile weapons. By the 1960s, the US and the Soviet Union could deliver nuclear ...

While there is no suggestion of an immediate threat, security agencies are concerned about such arms being smuggled into the ...

Vladimir Putin has just hiked up defence spending in Russia to its highest level since the Cold War.The Russian president ...

The Eisenhower administration decided that local law enforcement agencies, asked to keep an eye out for clandestine weapons ... unless Soviet leaders had decided to start an all-out war.

While the world has understandably been focused on the Israeli-Hamas War in Gaza and its spillover effects across the Middle ...

A second Trump presidency is a prospect so disturbing that more than 700 current and former national security officials ...

Two exhibits, in London and Edinburgh, look back at the anxiety-filled era — and draw eerie parallels to the present day.

But Knappenberger backs up his argument by showing how the development of nuclear weapons ... of the Soviet Union, Vladimir ...