Strobe Talbott assumed the presidency of the Brookings Institution in July 2002 after a career in journalism, government and academia.…
Among the challenges of serving as a U.S. diplomat in the USSR during the Cold War years of 1945 to…
Before being absorbed and restructured by the State Department in 1999, the United States Information Agency (USIA) was an independent…
A unified stance by NATO members and Gorbachev’s realization that it was better to go to global zero than to…
From November 1983 to March of 1985 negotiations between the United States and the USSR languished, leading the U.S. to…
In 1976, the USSR deployed hundreds of intermediate-range SS-20s (pictured), which were an upgrade of the older SS-3 and SS-4…
As General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev authorized the release of thousands of Soviet Jews who wanted to leave the…
After the 1949 defeat of the Chinese Nationalists at the hands of Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army, the newly-proclaimed People’s…
The development and potential use of nuclear weapons defined the Cold War era and kept the world under the shadow…
The end of World War II ushered in an era of intense arms competition between the Soviet Union and the…