HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR

In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›

A PROMISE THAT COULD SET THE WORLD ON A DANGEROUS PATH

The arms race also dictated that the Soviet Union respond with overwhelming retaliation against the United States, to quickly neutralize any further threat... READ MORE›

US AND CHINA NEGOTIATE ARMS DEAL FOR CYBERSPACE

Mr. Obama, who has said little about the United States' development of cyberweapons during his presidency, has begun to talk about it in recent days... READ MORE›

IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.

In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›

PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'

Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›

SYRIANS FLEEING WAR FIND NEW ROUTE TO EUROPE VIA THE ARCTIC CIRCLE

Intriguingly, in 2013 a Facebook group which advises Syrians about how to reach Europe suggested that Norway's border with Russia was impenetrable... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM

Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›

NATO RETURNS ITS ATTENTION TO AN OLD ADVERSARY RUSSIA

I don't think we're in the Cold War again... READ MORE›

CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS

Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›

70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA

Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›

RUSSIA SAYS WILL RETALIATE IF U.S. WEAPONS STATIONED ON ITS BORDERS

MOSCOW WARSAW A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia's border would be the most aggressive U.S... READ MORE›

RUSSIA IS PUTTING WORLD PEACE AT RISK, SAYS PENTAGON CHIEF ASH CARTER

Carter left open the possibility that Russia's role in Syria could evolve into one the US can embrace... READ MORE›

NATO LAUNCHES LARGEST AIRBORNE DRILLS IN EUROPE SINCE END OF COLD WAR

It said the exercise marks the first time the US 82nd Airborne Division has operated in Europe since supporting Nato operations in Kosovo in 1999... READ MORE›

IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL US CONSERVATIVES CONDEMN AGREEMENT

US conservatives strongly criticise the deal reached between major world powers and Iran that limits Iranian nuclear activity in return for the lifting of sanctions... READ MORE›

RUSSIA FUELLING UKRAINE WAR, SAYS US

Meanwhile, Ukraine's defence minister has said that government forces are redeploying in preparation for a possible new offensive by pro-Russian separatist rebels... READ MORE›

RUSSIA THREATENS US WITH NUCLEAR ARMS 'COUNTER-MEASURES'

The United States has reduced its non-strategic nuclear weapons by approximately 90 percent since the end of the Cold War, the spokesman, Lt... READ MORE›

Soviet submarine sightings caused Cold War security alerts in Sweden in the 1980s... READ MORE›

'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER

They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... READ MORE›

US AND POLAND IN TALKS OVER WEAPONS DEPLOYMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE

An alliance summit in Wales last year agreed quick deployments of Nato forces in Poland and the Baltic states... READ MORE›

U.S. TO PRE-POSITION TANKS, ARTILLERY IN BALTICS, EASTERN EUROPE

Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Tuesday moving to reassure NATO allies unnerved by Russian involvement in Ukraine... READ MORE›

INSIDE SKRUNDA-1: LATVIA'S SECRET SOVIET CITY TURNED GHOST TOWN

Cold war heyday In its prime, when it housed more than 5,000 people, Skrunda-1 played a crucial part in the Soviet Union's defence strategy... READ MORE›

BERLIN AIRPORT USED IN COLD WAR AIRLIFT IS POISED TO PLAY NEW HUMANITARIAN ROLE

Tempelhof Airport was in the Cold War's early days a lifeline for West Berliners isolated from the world during the Berlin Blockade... READ MORE›

WWII TANK WAS STASHED IN 78-YEAR-OLD'S CELLAR

Prosecutors meanwhile are investigating whether possession of the tank torpedo anti-aircraft gun and other weapons violates Germany's War Weapons Control Act... READ MORE›

RUSSIA FLEXES MUSCLE WITH BOMBER FLIGHTS NEAR U.S.

We have seen columns of Russian equipment, primarily Russian tanks, Russian artillery, Russian air defense systems and Russian combat troops entering into Ukraine, Breedlove said... READ MORE›

RUSSIA'S 1989 PLEA FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER WAS REJECTED, AND SO PUTINISM WAS BORN

As the cold war ended, Mikhail Gorbachev wanted a new political community, with Russia as an equal partner. The west refused to countenance it... READ MORE›

RUSSIA 'WILL RETALIATE' IF NATO STORES HEAVY WEAPONS ON ITS DOORSTEP

Russia's response could include delivering missiles to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad between Poland and Lithuania... READ MORE›

PENTAGON CHIEF TO PUSH U.S. ALLIES TO DITCH 'COLD WAR PLAYBOOK'

Relations between Moscow and the West have plunged to a post-Cold War low since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN VIOLATIONS OF AIRSPACE SEEN AS UNWELCOME TEST BY THE WEST

NATO said that a Russian aircraft also violated Turkish airspace on Sunday... READ MORE›

V-J DAY: RARE COLOUR ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS PEOPLE CELEBRATING END OF WORLD WAR II

Video V-J Day rare colour archive footage shows people celebrating end of World War II... READ MORE›

ALIENS HELPED STOP THE THIRD WORLD WAR SAYS APOLLO 14 ASTRONAUT EDGAR MITCHELL

Mitchell's views seemingly coincide with those of another major UFO incident that took place near Rendlesham Forest in the 1980s... READ MORE›