Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

On November 17, 1969, détente began to bear fruit with the opening in Helsinki of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) on nuclear weapons. But the Cold War had not yet thawed, and détente ...

Even before the Soviet Union tested its first atomic weapon in 1949, American security officials began secret studies of the threat from a smuggled bomb. This early assessment by the Central ...

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has drastically cut its nuclear arsenal and almost entirely abandoned its non-strategic, theater nuclear weapons. China and Russia have a large ...

In an interview with CNN that published on Saturday, Chang Hsien-yi, a nuclear engineer who took part in Taiwan's nuclear weapons project during the Cold War, said he did not betray his country by ...

Nuclear proliferation is the increase in the amount of nuclear weapons a country has ... the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and the Cold War began to heat up once more.

Labour agreed to include Britain’s cold war-era nuclear weapons in a review of defence capabilities yesterday — but delegates to the party’s annual conference will be denied a vote on scrapping ...

The early 1980s saw a resurgence of Cold War tensions to levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Amidst worsening relations between the West and the Soviet bloc, new nuclear weapons were ...

Hope-Simpson and other Canadian woman would be voices of restraint as the country moved closer to arming itself with nuclear weapons and joining the ranks of Cold War nuclear powers. In the fall ...