The Cold War: What We Saw

Nixon goes to China and in a masterstroke of diplomacy turns a two-power Cold War into three-power triangular diplomacy,... Read more

A change of commanders comes too late to reverse the situation in Southeast Asia as Richard Nixon's program of 'Vietnami... Read more

Mired not only in the jungles of Southeast Asia but, worse, mired in outdated, rigid doctrine, fossilized tactics, and d... Read more

You stepped out of a big, air-conditioned silver bird, out into the kind of heat, sunlight and humidity that even Americ... Read more

With the mechanisms of apocalypse firmly in place, both sides accelerate their efforts to determine the actual capabilit... Read more

Following the Bay of Pigs disaster, and a second crisis in Europe resulting in the deadly grey reality of the Berlin Wal... Read more

He had grown up a rich kid, believe it or not: the illegitimate son of a millionaire planter and a servant girl half his... Read more

In the years after World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower was arguably the most popular man on the planet. Ike’s prestige... Read more

Joseph Stalin, the architect and instigator of the 42-year Cold War, has died five years into the conflict. Across the A... Read more

Although the entire Cold War passed without shots being fired between the two superpowers, the Cold War was anything but... Read more