The Latest Breaking News from the Cold War

Worldwide military expenditure saw its steepest rise in 2024 since the end of the Cold War, reaching $2.7 trillion as wars and rising tensions drove up spending, researchers said Monday.

It comes after the UK announced the largest sustained increase to defence spending since the Cold War.

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England.

The ex-KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the Cold War.

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the Cold War’s most important spies

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the most important spies of the Cold War.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retake the Crimean Peninsula after Russia’s seizure exactly 11 years ago

Sympathy towards wartime Russia has deep historical roots, back to the Cold War era and earlier.

European doubts about deterrence predate the current US administration. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and its growing reliance on nuclear coercion to ward off Nato support, brought the importance of nuclear weapons to the foreground again for the first time since the cold war.