On Feb. 10, 1955, Marysville was preparing to join other communities in an effort to defend the United States against air ...

Before the Cold War hardened into coups and counterinsurgency, the United States backed reformist governments across Latin ...

1951 was a turning point where the Cold War hardened into a global standoff. Nuclear tests, espionage trials, and brutal fighting in Korea pushed tensions higher than ever. Major treaties reshaped the ...

Longtime political science professor and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute John Mueller writes in Foreign Affairs that containment of the Soviet Union did not contribute to the end of the Cold War, ...

A staff ride offers a unique opportunity for learning. The concept behind it is simple: to study earlier military campaigns by walking the battlefields. Being there – in the place where it happened – ...

On Nov. 12, 2024, the National Cold War Center at Blytheville announced a partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center in an effort to preserve the story of the Cold War. The Washington-based center, ...

The entrance to "Tunnel Vault" at the Las Alamos National Laboratory. (LANL photo) Civilians can now get a glimpse of what the term 'critical infrastructure protection' meant during the Cold War, as ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

Rosa Parks' birth, Yalta Conference shaping post-WWII Europe, Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, and pivotal civil rights ...

Mexico and Cuba share a history as Spanish colonies, but their relationship with one another has had its ups and downs ...