The hostility between the superpowers gave shape to the main themes that dominated the Cold War: ...

The global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. BBC Two's new Cold War Season explores the cultural and political impact of a conflict that divided the world.

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

...to Cold War: The Dawn of the Cold War: For the past four years, the top scientists on the planet had been perfecting what was to become the absolute weapon: the ...

In total, the global nuclear stockpile is close to 13,000 weapons. While that number is lower than it was during the Cold War—when there were roughly 60,000 weapons worldwide—it does not alter the ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...