A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers ...

Declassified CIA documents describe the moment 'aliens' attacked and turned more than 20 soldiers into 'stone poles'. A top ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

When the Soviet Union could no longer afford the competition, its leaders decided to end the Cold War. A modified version of this argument holds that the American military buildup simply worsened ...

The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.