President Ronald Reagan believed in the power of communication. He aimed to inform a global audience about American values and find ways to provide [...] More ...

In 1962, President John Kennedy told our enemy, Soviet Union Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, to get his missiles out of ...

Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

The Boston native and father of Tucker Carlson had a wide-ranging career as a reporter and government official.

My grandfather J. Robert Oppenheimer shared the first principle of nuclear weapons: The only safety from them is in ...

The Unification Church has had close ties to world politics for decades, but a court ruling in Japan could be the end of the organisation.

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

Gordievsky passed away on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police confirmed Saturday that his death is not being treated as suspicious ...

Soon after, U.S. President Ronald Reagan began moves to ease nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union. In 1984, Gordievsky ...

In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.

KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the ...