In the event of a nuclear war, the global superpowers would suffer devastating losses - with a chilling map revealing parts ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was an everyday fear. By the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev was reforming the Soviet Union as they faced economic problems and individual countries ...

In September 1945, a young Russian man symbolically ushered in the Cold War when ... in the Second World War. And the Soviet Union had been an ally to the West during the war.

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming decades between two global superpowers. The United States and the Soviet Union each wanted their own economic and ...