The global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. BBC Two's new Cold War Season explores the cultural and political impact of a conflict that divided the world.

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane ...

The ensuing controversy over their deployment grew into a key phase in the later years of the Cold War. The Euromissile Crisis and the End of the Cold War explores the origins, unfolding, and ...

The most modern and spine-chilling of English Heritage’s properties, the York Cold War Bunker uncovers the secret history of Britain’s Cold War. Enter the blast-proof doors and investigate the more ...

As a NASA science flight was flying over the Greenland ice sheet this spring, a surprise popped up on a specialty radar: a hidden Cold War city more than 100 feet beneath the ice. In April 2024, a ...

One year after Hamas gunmen broke out of Gaza to carry out the deadliest attack in Israel's history, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, Gaza lies in ruins and regional conflict ...

NASA scientists have rediscovered a long-lost "city" buried under 100ft of ice, 58 years after it was abandoned as a US base during the Cold War. Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland ...

In the 1970s, as the Cold War gradually transformed into détente owing to the general easing of tensions between Washington and Moscow and between Washington and Beijing, the status of the ...

Known as Camp Century, this site was once a test ground for nuclear missiles during the Cold War. It comes shortly after the agency confirmed the date of "the end of the world". NASA, always at ...

Moscow deployed four Kinzhal air-launched missiles, two Iskander-M ballistic missiles, one Kh-23 North Korean ballistic missile, 55 Kh-101 and Kh-55SM cruise missiles launched from Tu-95MS bomber ...

Ukrainian leader says he is grateful for Trump’s ‘strong resolve’ to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. Here are the key developments on the 1,019th day of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Donald Trump on Sunday said Syrian President Bashar Assad has fled his country and his protector Putin, “was not interested in protecting him any longer”.