ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday called for a renewed commitment to diplomacy to resolve conflicts as he marked the 50th ...

This “super-cartel” won’t just be a criminal syndicate trafficking migrants and drugs: It will operate more like a rogue ...

In 1949, the US Congress agreed to co-finance radar construction with the Royal Canadian Air Force—RCAF. Officials in Ottawa ...

In The World of the Cold War, Vladislav Zubok, professor of international history at the London School of Economics, recounts ...

Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable ...

The USSR-built Plokštinė Missile Base once housed nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. Abandoned in the late 1970s, it’s ...

While it is hard to quantify the program’s effect in absolute terms, its history offers valuable lessons for today, not least ...

After the successful nuclear detonations on top of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union was slow to react and focus its ...

Much of the carbon dioxide released today will continue warming the planet for centuries, shaping not only our lives but the ...

Later, at scientific conferences, Sagdeev heard physicists criticize the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics on the ...

Matthew S. Wiseman is a Canadian historian whose research concentrates on science, technology, and medical research ethics in the Cold War. He is currently a lecturer in the department of history at ...