In 1946, less than a year after the end of World War Two, Britain's wartime leader sounded an urgent warning about the Soviet threat to the West.

The story of how an ABC film in 1983 changed President Reagan's mind about the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Is the contest in the world today between democracies and authoritarian societies an updated version of the contest between capitalism and communism? It has been clear for over three decades that we ...

The rise of China as a global power has cast a shadow over U.S. foreign policy. For nearly a decade, elected leaders from both major political parties have described China as a sinister threat to ...

Of all today’s crises and conflicts, the US-China rivalry will most fundamentally remake our world. A contest between the two top powers will shape the international system and the lives of people ...

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...