Cold War

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If we are approaching a second Cold War, this time with China and other strategic competitors, most of the action will take place in the realms of diplomacy, development, and economics.

Officials have been sounding the alarm about the increasing presence of Russia's submarine fleet off the U.S. coast and in the Mediterranean.

A House committee on China will hear testimony Tuesday evening regarding current U.S.-China relations and tensions between the U.S., China and Russia.

China has proposed a 12-point peace plan to end the year-long war in Ukraine, which has already seen tens of thousands of civilian and military deaths.

NATO air forces have been allowed to "atrophy" since the Cold War ended, according to a new think tank report.

Marta Hobbs tells Newsweek about fleeing communist Poland in 1987 in this original essay.

U.S. and NATO officials immediately denounced Putin for unilaterally suspending the most crucial bilateral U.S.-Russia arms control treaty on the books.

Experts believe Russia has biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world.

Some Republicans such as former President Donald Trump have called for the balloon to be shot down as it crosses the U.S.

More than 30 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia may be headed for the second act of dissolution if Ukraine wins the war.

When the body temperature drops below 95 degrees Fahrenheit, hypothermia can set in, leading to shivering, confusion and eventually death if left untreated.

A number of islands had to be evacuated after a 1954 U.S. nuclear weapons test.

In an original essay, Mark Colledge tells Newsweek of his choice in buying a Cold War nuclear bunker.

Alaska could have become part of the British Empire, or served as a base for Soviet nuclear weapons in the Cold War, according to historians.

Biden recently said Russia may be leading the world into nuclear "Armageddon," while Elon Musk tweeted that "nuclear war probability is rising rapidly."

Russia's Vladimir Putin, a KGB agent at the time, is said to have brought appliance home after the Cold War ended.

Cold War expert Sergey Radchenko told Newsweek it was a "tragedy" the last Soviet leader saw so many of his accomplishments dismantled by Putin.

Gorbachev ushered in a series of political reforms that fundamentally changed the Soviet Union in the years before its 1991 dissolution.

As Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine staggers through its sixth month, the risk of a catastrophic nuclear war between Russia and NATO grows with each bloody day.

The Swedish institute expects the global nuclear arsenal to start growing for the first time since the end of the Cold War.

The Russian leader has repeatedly said an eastward expansion of the Cold War Western alliance was the main reason why Russia invaded Ukraine.

DeSantis made the comment during a press event Friday morning.

The U.S. issued the warning on Thursday, the same day Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in India after concluding a two-day visit to China.

Effective statesmanship calls for recognizing the world as it is—not in wishcasting what it could, or should, be.

Alexander Darchiyev, a director at the Russian foreign ministry, told Interfax there was "peaceful coexistence" between Moscow and Washington in the past.

Carlson claimed the Biden administration had inserted itself into a "hot war" between Ukraine and Russia.

The post-Cold War era is over. The signs of its demise abound, and they are not small ones.

The world is currently and frighteningly locked in a battle to the death between democracy and authoritarianism.

The key difference between a nuclear explosion and a conventional explosion is the amount of energy that is released in their detonations.