The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as an ...

Twenty-five years ago, after the fall of the Soviet Union, an academic at the University of Warwick began work in the Russian archives to map the sophisticated regime that made the Soviet Union the ...

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...

When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock. As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the minute hand gets closer ...

Mongolia declared itself a “people’s republic” 100 years ago on November 26, 1924. But despite the name of its capital city remaining Ulan Bator (Red Hero), the country’s Soviet-linked past has been ...