Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear catastrophe is back.

The “Cold War” arose because there was never a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the “Cold War” moniker was used because of the tension between the two nations ...

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 ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency's second day on Tuesday. At ...

During the Cold War, there was almost nothing the CIA wouldn't do to get a leg up on the Soviet Union, from simple operations like intercepting and reading the mail of American citizens to more ...

This week Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to President Donald Trump that American and Russian skaters play ...