An end to which Cold War? / Walter LaFeber -- The Cold War, the long peace, and the future / John Lewis Gaddis -- Quiet cataclysm : some afterthoughts on World War III / John Mueller -- Some lessons ...

Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

Expert of Eastern European and Russian affairs and Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute Dr. Michael Kimmage joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about the "Cold War" contested by ...

"The current questioning of nuclear deterrence implies something other than its withering away. There is no post-nuclear strategy. . . .[T]he nuclear instrument remains the central element in the ...

Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a high-stakes race between the U.S., the Soviet Union, and their allies, the ...

In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...

During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...