Cold War (Page 2)

The Cold War was fought in shadows, in space, and in proxy conflicts around the globe. From the Berlin Airlift to the fall of the Wall, nuclear standoff and proxy wars, generations of Americans served on freedom's front lines.

Latest in Cold War

7 unbelievable secret spy weapons of the Cold War

Amos Chapple, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Aldrich Ames, the Cold War’s deadliest CIA mole, completes life sentence

By Blake Stilwell

The 1952 UFO Washington sighting that upended decades of denial

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The real-life military experiment that inspired ‘Stranger Things’

By Sarah Sicard

How shoddy email practices led to the convictions in the Iran-Contra Affair

This is how an AK-47 works

By Adam Gramegna

The CIA secretly created an undetectable ‘heart attack gun’

By Blake Stilwell

A secret Cold War unit was the basis for today’s special operations

By Blake Stilwell

The CIA declassified these 11 Russian jokes about the Soviet Union

By Blake Stilwell

8 presidents who actually saw combat in a big way

By Blake Stilwell

How the US Air Force handled its first-ever ‘Broken Arrow’

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Why Cold War NASA had 4 armored personnel carriers

Today in military history: Soviet Union captures Romania

Why Soviet troops boiled their bullets

By Miguel Ortiz

Operation Cyclone: The CIA’s covert program to arm the mujahideen

By Jessica Evans

‘Operation Gold:’ How an underground tunnel provided a treasure trove of Soviet secrets

By Jessica Evans

That time we almost launched the atomic bomb on North Korea

By Jessica Manfre

One of the world’s most famous Soviet defectors has passed

That time the CIA tried to topple Castro

By Jessica Evans

Today in military history: US tests first hydrogen bomb

This Cuban pilot defected to the US then went back to rescue his family

By Miguel Ortiz

The Berlin Airlift turned Germany into a beacon of hope in one year

One of the closest brushes with nuclear war was Russia vs China

Delta Daze: The ‘ghosts’ Delta Force saw after the Cold War

Why a NATO general defied the Supreme Allied Commander in Kosovo

8 haunting photos from an abandoned Air Force Base

By Blake Stilwell

Operation Gladio: The covert Italian stay-behind operation

By Jessica Evans

How Operation CHAOS let the CIA play James Bond

By Jessica Evans

This Top Secret mission called for the US to attack Miami

By Jessica Evans

Today in military history: Soviet Union launches Sputnik

Why American submarines feared this Russian destroyer

By Harold C. Hutchison

Albert Hakim was tied to some of America’s most critical covert operations

By Jessica Evans

The Berlin Wall fell because of one East German bureaucrat’s press conference

This Russian-born FBI agent was the bureau’s spycatcher

This unstoppable artillery bombardment doomed Nazi Berlin

10 facts you didn’t know about Nikita Khrushchev

By Bethaney Phillips

Why Congress wants the CIA to come clean about a 1973 coup in Chile

This is how astronauts pee in space

By Shannon Corbeil

The last Union combat veteran of the Civil War lived to see the Cold War

By Blake Stilwell

The Soviet Union produced commercials for products that never existed

Why Japan didn’t invade the Soviet Union in World War II

These are the 10 rules the CIA used for spying on the Soviet Union in Moscow

This is why Soviet cosmonauts carried a shotgun into space

By Blake Stilwell

The first plastic pistol was made for civilians to fight off the Soviets

By Miguel Ortiz

The US wanted to use hundreds of nukes to create an alternative to the Suez Canal

The most damaging Soviet mole of the Cold War died in prison after a life sentence

The Soviets fired this secret heavy space cannon while in orbit

By Blake Stilwell

Today in military history: US-Soviet hotline is agreed upon

The frigid origin of the Iron Curtain

By Jessica Evans

Today in military history: USS George Washington is launched

How North Korea was built and molded by the Soviet Union

The Gouzenko Affair was the most shocking Soviet defection to the West

The German convoy attack that helped lead to the Cold War

Today in military history: US and Soviets sign pact to destroy chemical weapons

A Russian submarine had a ‘Crimson Tide’ moment near Cuba

This nuclear explosion was nearly 3 times the size anyone predicted

Today in military history: First atomic cannon is fired

These are the rules NATO allies have about growing beards

By Eric Milzarski

Walking on the grass and 4 other things that almost made the US lose the Cold War

By Uncle Walkie

Britain’s V bombers and Blue Steel missiles were beasts

The Atomic Cannon was a thing during the Cold War

By Orvelin Valle

5 spies that creatively destroyed the enemy

Who wins the battle between Soviet snipers vs. Mujahideen?

By Jessica Evans

This is why the US military gave GPS away for free