Why the arms race is still white hot decades after the Cold War ended — and how to stop it. Only a major culture change can triumph over the military-industrial complex.

Journalist David E. Hoffman reflects on the high-stakes maneuverings of the Cold War arms race and tells Fresh Air about the urgent search for the nuclear and biological hazards left behind after ...

In the tense early years of the Cold War, governments around the world were frantically making plans about what to do in the ...

Arms control is dying, and arms races are roaring back to life. Over the past two decades, key pillars of the superpower arms control regime erected during the Cold War have collapsed, one by one ...

With the recent release of the hit movie “Oppenheimer,” many older Alle-Kiski Valley residents are reflecting on life in the 1950s and ’60s during the Cold War and the threat of nuclear attack.

The nuclear arms race is now under new management — and that may make all the difference. Tom Z. Collina is director of policy at Ploughshares Fund , a global security foundation in Washington, D.C.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has suggested that the Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s regime could collapse if a ...

The basic idea was redundancy: If one system was knocked out by an enemy, the others would still be available. Over the years, however, U.S. nuclear submarines have become virtually undetectable.

President Trump’s announcement that the United States is preparing to withdraw from a decades-old treaty with Russia credited with helping end the Cold War has stoked debate about whether a new ...

In “Defense Spending Versus the Welfare State” (Letters, June 23), Frank Richter states, “In the nuclear era, naval arms races are over.” The outcome of the Cold War was affected by such ...

The Cold War was not a time of hardline scientific ethics, and people take for granted that records exist demonstrating that. Such accountability for some of the worst human right’s violations is one ...