'The Defector: The Untold Story of the KGB Agent Who Saved MI5 and Changed the Cold War' By Richard Kerbaj Pegasus Books: Sept. 1, 2026 Hardcover, 352 pages What arts and culture topics would you like us to cover?

Recently, I was playing in the woods with my son when we decided to go the path least taken. Two roads diverged in the wood, and we took the one less traveled—the one that was overgrown, the one that had bushes everywhere. When we came out and got back to the car, I checked my […]

Lee Denson, who had led the Pentagon’s arms control staff, “Reykjavik effectively became the beginning of the end of the Cold War.”

Alston spent years bearing that responsibility as a member of the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile force during the Cold War. The mission at Site 571-7 never slept.

Paul Brown’s new study of the Cold War submarines are of a different national variety but nonetheless very much from a major player during the Cold War.

Commentary Few warships embody Cold War competition like Russia’s Kirov battlecruisers.

A central component of the Cold War with China is the effort made by its government to influence American public opinion and culture.

For Cold War buffs, Mitrokhin's name may be familiar, as the Russian archivist had those volumes published with the collaboration of Britain’s Christopher Andrew.

Analysts call it a “Cold-War-style contest” with one pivotal twist: The two rivals remain tightly bound by trade and finance. Rather than severing those ties outright, each side is racing to rewire them.

For readers who love suspense novels (and one can hardly ask for better than a Cold War novel set in space), “Final Orbit” is a perfect selection.

The plutonium dates to the Cold War, when the United States produced it for nuclear weapons. Much of the stockpile now sits as surplus after warhead dismantlement. Oklo said Newcleo would contribute fuel experience and potential project capital.

"Red Lily: A Delightful Cold War Spy Mystery with a Parisian Flair" by Janice Graham.

This black-and-white Cold War oddity tries to do it all: patriotic military drama, high-tech weapons demo, and Navy buddy comedy, all rolled into one brisk package.

“I think that post-Cold War, we felt like, ‘Oh, we'll never have to worry about anybody again,’ yet here we are again,” Landry said. Trump, he said, has a chance “to right the wrongs of the past.”

The alliance has been “cherished by all” in thwarting the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Rep.

Different Than the Cold War The current struggle with the PRC differs from the one the United States faced with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The combative relationship between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) had culminated in the ongoing Cold War, which came with the possibility of nuclear war.

The relationship among Japan, the United States, and South Korea is a triangle, with the weakest side being the Japan-South Korea relation, Mr. Shi said.

The 'Evil Empire' A 1946 speech began this chain of March Cold War events, and nearly 40 years later, another speech became a link in the chain.

Curtis LeMay was the driving force behind air superiority in the Cold War. (Public Domain) Strategic Air Command (SAC) was established in 1946 as a global bomber strike force. In 1948, SAC fell under the command of Gen.

Given the current situation, there are growing concerns that the world may be returning to a state similar to that of the Cold War.

Whenever I travel to Berlin I can’t help remembering my spooky Cold War visit back in 1971.

The Biden administration has labeled China the “most consequential” challenge to the United States, saying that the United States seeks competition with Beijing but does not seek a conflict or a new Cold War.

This process carries a greater threat of global conflict than the Cold War, with the current trade war signaling its beginning.

Kroenig: Some people ask if Cold War is really the right term. It's not exactly like the first Cold War, because we're more interdependent with China.

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Some 1,500 service personnel will fly out to join the NATO exercises, the largest to take place since the Cold War. Maj.

Looking back, the U.S. victory in the Cold War was massively and tragically misspent.

According to the project website, the USS Phoenix Cold War Monument aims to preserve the history and lessons of the Cold War, spanning 1946 to 1991.

According to the Air Force Armament Museum Foundation, the unguided air-to-air rocket was used by the U.S. and Canada during a period of the Cold War when interception of Soviet strategic bombers was a major military concern.