Soviet Union made one of the strongest air forces ever, and thousands of aircraft were produced in decades of severe ...

When World War II ended in 1945, the international system was fundamentally transformed. Six years of total war devastated ...

The Cold War was fought between 1947 and 1991 not only on political platforms and on the ground but also in the expansive ...

Archaeologists uncovered a relic of the 20th-century conflict beneath Scarborough Castle, decades after the bunker was sealed ...

Longtime political science professor and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute John Mueller writes in Foreign Affairs that containment of the Soviet Union did not contribute to the end of the Cold War, ...

Secrecy was crucial to many of the plant's different missions. But now some of the people who worked there are pressing for ...

The geopolitical cleavage which defined the second half of the 20th century was not only a period of fierce competition between two military superpowers, but it also engendered specific ways of ...

On Nov. 12, 2024, the National Cold War Center at Blytheville announced a partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center in an effort to preserve the story of the Cold War. The Washington-based center, ...

A vintage Cold War air raid siren that stood atop a tower in a Seattle park for more than 70 years remains in the hands of a private salvage yard in Kent. And that’s where the man who now owns the ...

Your special issue, “The Arts in America 1945-1985” (Summer, 1985), is a valuable contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the past forty years. I particularly enjoyed the articles on art ...