As President Richard Nixon addressed a tense nation on live television, his grave demeanor hinted at a pivotal moment, and indeed, halfway across the world, U.S. Navy A-6 Intruders had just taken off ...

The ultimate Cold Warrior was an elder statesman interested in the contours of the post-Cold War era. Nixon warned that Boris Yeltsin’s brief experiment with democracy was already over.

The situation worsened and in 1968 Nixon won the election with a promise to end the war in Vietnam. However, Nixon continued ...

I n the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon made history by drawing Communist China closer to the United States, giving Washington an advantage in its Cold War contest with the Soviet Union. Half ...

When Pakistan’s U.S.-backed military was waging a genocidal war in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, in 1971, he and Nixon not only ignored pleas from the American consulate in East Pakistan to ...

The cold calculus of human lives dictated that a great man should let thousands die so that billions may live without fear of nuclear war. Nixon wanted to be a great man.

Henry Kissinger, the most powerful U.S. diplomat of the Cold War era, who helped Washington open up to China, forge arms control deals with the Soviet Union and end the Vietnam War, but who was ...

In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon made history by drawing Communist China closer to the United States, giving Washington an advantage in its Cold War contest with the Soviet Union.

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.