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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 ...

In American understanding, the Cold War was an ideological confrontation between freedom and democracy, on the one ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...

You think the Cold War is over? Think again. Russian and American forces are still challenging each other in the Arctic by Jon Bowermaster At 12:4 ...

President Trump and other leaders see this moment as more akin to the end of the original Cold War, when U.S. President ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

In 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev signed the dissolution of the Soviet Union, officially ending the Cold War. But while the “cold” conflict that had necessitated an aggressive security posture and ...