The Cold War wasn’t just about presidents giving speeches and missiles pointed at the sky. Behind the headlines, there was a quieter war happening in labs, tunnels, radio waves, and places most people ...

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, ...

On the night of September 30, 1965, a group calling itself the " September 30 Movement" kidnapped and killed six senior Indonesian generals. A declassified document from November 1965 describing a ...

The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of an era with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the dissolution of the USSR, and ...

Ukraine’s fate is in the hands of the world’s three superpowers: China, Russia, and the United States. To glimpse Ukraine’s future, we should look at how past superpower conflicts ended. Throughout ...

Pavel Palazhchenko, a key member of Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev’s inner circle during the final years of the Cold War, will headline the National Cold War Center’s “Cold War Conversation” ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has caused its share of intellectual confusion. Putin has never coherently or consistently explained his intentions, and Russia’s ...

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author, most recently, of “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.” He is a columnist for The ...