After the Cold War, those strands began to diverge. The Unfinished War "The wars of the past prompted our predecessors to create institutions that are supposed to protect us from war," Ukrainian ...

The collapse of Soviet communism must be especially satisfying to U.S. liberals, not because they were responsible (they weren`t), but because they see it closing the book on U.S. conservatism as w… ...

NATO members have pledged to bring defense spending to 5% of GDP, with NATO's chief saying it will be used for a fivefold ...

Five countries plan to revive the use of a weapon prohibited by treaty for more than a quarter of a century, hoping to ...

Three decades ago, at the end of the Cold War, the world had over 55,000 atomic weapons and nuclear Armageddon was thought to be more likely than climate change. Today, there are “only” 13,400 ...

Why the arms race is still white hot decades after the Cold War ended — and how to stop it. Only a major culture change can triumph over the military-industrial complex.

The Third Reich fell, but its enforcers didn’t vanish. In this shocking conclusion, trace what became of the SS, Gestapo, and military police after Germany’s surrender. Some faced justice at Nuremberg ...

Yet, as documented in Apocalypse Television: How the Day After Helped End the Cold War, the making of The Day After nearly didn’t happen.

Eric Hobsbawm chides Tony Judt for studying the ‘marginal and ineffective world of the Left Bank’ rather than ‘the Brasserie Lipp, where the politicians gathered’ (LRB, 26 April).But it could be ...

The Cold War would end, at least in that form, but so would the dominance of the Big Three networks – and the prevalence of shared viewing experiences – that “The Day After” so vividly ...

"The Day After," a 1983 made-for-TV movie that aired on ABC days before Thanksgiving, provided a shocking depiction of what a nuclear blast could look like in Middle America.