How Close Did We Come To A Nuclear War In The 1980s?

New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis -- Danger Room During 10 days in November 1983, the United Sta...

Did The U.S. Plan To Detonate A Nuclear Bomb On The Moon During The Cold War?

Nasa How The US Planned To Blow Up The Moon To Win The Cold War -- Business Insider When word came out that the U.S. likely tested toxic aer...

All Quiet On The Cold War Front

The abandoned Soviet era Cold War listening post and base near Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan All Quiet On The Cold War Front: Former Communist Liste...

Putin Is Laughing At The U.S. And The Loss Of It's Cold War Nuclear Secrets

Vladimir Putin. Photo: RIA Novosti Putin Praises Cold War Moles For Stealing U.S. Nuclear Secrets -- Reuters (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin prai...

Reflections Of A Spy Swap 50 Years Ago

In May 1960, Francis Gary Powers was flying a spy plane when it was shot down over the Ural Mountains. He returned to the United States in 1...

The Amazing Story On How Our Supersecret, Cold-War Spy Satellites Took Photos Of The Soviet Empire

TOP SECRET: Your Briefing On The CIA's Cold-War Spy Satellite, 'Big Bird' -- The Atlantic The amazing story of how our supersecr...

Getting Ready For Armageddon

Burlington, a command bunker buried under 100 feet of earth at Corsham, Wilts Photo: ALAMY 1961 Files: Codeword To Enter Secret Bunker At Th...

During the Cold War East Germany Had Thousands of Spies in West Germany

(Click on Image to Enlarge) Graphic: Stasi spies in West Germany Stasi Had Thousands of Spies in West Germany -- Spiegel Online New research...

Former Leaders Meet To Commemorate The Fall of The Berlin Wall 20 Years Ago

Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl Mark Berlin Wall's Fall -- Yahoo News/Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) – George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl pa...

'Dead Hand' Re-Examines The Cold War Arms Race

Photo: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. ( Slate ) From NPR: Journalist David E. Hoffman revisits the high stakes maneuvering of ...

Cold War Models Are Obsolete, National Security Advisor Says

National Security Adviser retired Marine General James Jones (L) pauses while speaking as U.S. President-elect Barack Obama looks on during ...