On April 17, 1961, the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro’s Cuba government began. Poor ...

Survival guides, stockpiling and mass evacuation drills. Europe is scrambling to prepare its citizens for the growing threat ...

A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Washington and Beijing have entered a phase of hardened rhetoric, reciprocal sanctions, and reduced people-to-people engagement. The risk of miscalculation is now dangerously high.

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

Last year, Sweden updated its Cold War-era civil emergency advice “to ... Not all EU countries have the same level of crisis preparedness, and the commission also wants to encourage them to ...

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