The Red October, featured in both a Tom Clancy novel and a movie starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, seemed so genuine.

Former KBG spy Sergei Jirnov has revealed his experience being interrogated by Russian leader Vladimir Putin in 1980 after ...

A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.

With a fundamentally different playing field today, the United States and its Western partners should adapt, if not adopt, the strategies of the Cold War.

Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

The espionage-detective series is set in the 1960s, against the backdrop of a threat of nuclear war. Soviet intelligence intercepts information about an impending US attack from bases in the FRG. To ...

Bob Barrett began his association with Gerald Ford in 1974 when he became his Army presidential military aide and ended 50 years later with a personal memoir, “Inside the President’s Team: Family, ...

Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

Arthur Franck’s film examines the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe that drew then-President Ford, Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev and other world leaders. After long ...

“You often need a martyr or someone very committed to act first,” Margaret Levi, a professor emerita of political science at ...