What was it like to live at the end of the Cold War? While Francis Fukuyama mulled Kojève, Hegel, and the end of history, a ...

On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj. Arthur D. "Nick" Nicholson. He was the last American killed ...

The Cold War is over. There is an entire generation of adults who never lived in a world with a Berlin Wall, or a Soviet Union. Of course, for many years, films related to the tenuous dynamic between ...

Examine the origins of great power competition in the Cold War. In the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a global competition for allies, influence, and security. To many ...

American histories of the Cold War tend to depict the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the era’s worst depredations. In doing so, however, Americans forget the complexity of the 15-year crisis over the ...

Nuclear war was a common concern in the 1980s, and these four songs showed their artists clearly worried about the bomb being ...

The Cold War wasn't actually much of a war at all, as it saw very little actual combat between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two of the world's biggest superpowers, the two were in a nuclear ...