Cold War

At a time when U.S.-Russian relations are at a post-Cold War nadir, former GOP stalwarts Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum decided to visit St. Petersburg. According to Huckabee’s Twitter feed, the two have spent the past few days in Russia, touring the city an…

In the early 20th century, some Koreans were close to the Chinese, some to the Russians and some to the Japanese. After the Japanese empire annexed the Korean Peninsula in 1910, Koreans faced a choice between almost hopeless resistance and collaboration. Much…

Moscow (AFP) - The city that hosts Russia's main nuclear research site announced a day of mourning Sunday for five of its staff killed during a missile test that provoked elevated radiation levels. Russia has said that five nuclear agency workers were killed…

Greene, who had known Philby well, bridled at the essay and, in reviewing the book for The Observer, wondered how the author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold could have been responsible for such a vulgar and untrue depiction of the man. Greene poked fun a…

LONDON (Reuters) - For those who worried about the risk of the Cold War ending in catastrophe, the early- to mid-1980s were the most alarming period since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, paranoia and alarm about the adversa…

According to new information, the next installment of the Call of Duty franchise may be a reboot of the Black Ops series from long-time developer Treyarch. LongSensation, who broke the news that the forthcoming Modern Warfare game would be arriving and as a r…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday he's absolutely convinced the U.S. will remain in the military alliance and it has made no preparations for an unlikely U.S. withdrawal because doing so would send a signal that…

Two more horrific mass shootings over the weekend again highlight the gun-related homicides plaguing the US. The problem is so severe, the data suggests, that US gun violence rates are comparable to those in failed states and war zones. Data compiled by th…

(Adds quote, background) MOSCOW, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it would take measures to defend itself if the United States stationed missiles in Asia following the collapse of a landmark arms control treaty and that it expected Japan to deploy a n…

Is it the end of US and Russian arms control?