The Latest Breaking News from Cold War

The legacy of 'WarGames' shouldn't be 'Ready Player One,' or even the Cold War. Here's why this 1983 sci-fi thriller is so great, forty years later.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says he's deeply concerned by China's unwillingness to engage on military crisis management

Nuclear power is low-carbon, and uses a fraction of the land as solar. Did we bet on the wrong horse?

NATO will step back to the future at its Vilnius summit in July, with leaders set to approve thousands of pages of secret military plans that will detail for the first time since the Cold War how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack.

During the Cold War, the Soviet government banned jazz, rock 'n' roll and other music. A group of bootleggers came up with an unusual way to distribute the music they loved.

The lower house of Russia's parliament has voted unanimously to formally pull out of a Cold War-era security deal more than eight years after Moscow halted its participation

During an official visit to Australia in 2016, US President Joe Biden assured America’s Pacific allies that “We’re not trying to contain China”. That assurance is looking very shaky now.

Beijing says US, Australia and New Zealand have ‘a cold war mentality’ and are driving up geopolitical tensions

Recent publicity around the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has led to a great deal of public concern about its growth and potential. Italy recently banned the latest version, citing concerns about privacy because of its ability to use information without permission.

The great secretary of state’s biographer, Philip Taubman, balances cold war achievements with costly political failures

The king is one of thousands of sons and daughters whose fathers were involved in the Cold War weapons tests, and who now have the right to collect a posthumous gong on their behalf