Why not,” Viktor Belenko quipped years later, recalling the day he rolled the dice on a Cold War escape that would upend ...

After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

This concept of great power competition, one born from a misreading of the Cold War, is our concern. It elides the violence ...

The US intelligence apparatus needs new legal authorities, operational models, and institutions built for hybrid warfare.

Secret information hidden in this toilet was collected periodically by Harry Houghton. In 1961 he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment" ...

Melita Norwood was the KGB's longest-serving female agent in Britain, until being exposed in 1992 by legendary defector ...

In the wake of Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth’s passing, let us take a moment to revisit some of his classics ...

The Americans followed the double lives of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, who presented themselves as a happy suburban family.

Frederick Forsyth, a British author of thrillers who frequently made the bestseller lists, sold 70 million books and saw his ...

Pens that shoot, cameras in matchboxes, poison-tipped umbrellas—the Cold War wasn’t just fought with words. These were the ...

Putin’s political life has been defined by the Cold War. His experience of the conflict’s collapse defines his worldview. As a KGB agent in Dresden, he was shocked by Moscow’s failure to prevent the ...

Trump’s evolution — from vowing to end the war in a day to comparing the warring sides to children allowed to spar on a hockey rink — has been, for him, a frustrating one. He has wavered on ...