In 1975, two Cold War rivals launched into orbit from opposite sides of the Earth, docked their spacecraft, and shook hands ...
The 1945 meeting betwen the Allied partners underlined the differences between them, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" ...
Deep in the secrecy of the Cold War, the Pentagon quietly armed a fighter jet with a missile capable of destroying orbiting satellites, then raced to use it before Congress could shut the program down ...
No matter what side you were on, espionage was a cornerstone of Cold War political life. But it was also big business.
Military personnel emerge from their foxholes to observe the atomic bomb explosion at the Nevada Proving Grounds, a nuclear testing site near Camp Desert Rock, Nevada on May 15th 1952. Source: U.S.
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 ...
An effort to bounce radar off the ionosphere across vast distances was too late for the Cold War, but it may help make Arctic ...
Learn more about what caused the decades-old spy satellite to break apart and why its debris could pose a threat to other ...
Champagne corks popped on December 3, 1989 as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president George H.W. Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the ...