This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than ...

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.

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 ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As President Richard Nixon addressed a tense nation on live television, his grave demeanor hinted at a pivotal moment, and ...

Nixon was one of the original Cold War demagogues, the men who never hesitated to identify communism with Black people and the “Eastern Establishment” liberals who postured as allies.

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.

Nixon spent the years following his presidency taking foreign trips on behalf of the United States and offering counsel based on decades of experience to guide U.S. policy in the post-Cold War era.

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