The Latest Breaking News from the Cold War

From 19 July to 3 August 1952, the Finnish capital Helsinki hosted the 15th Summer Olympics, the first games of the modern era. The world's biggest sporting event after the Second World War took place at the height of the Cold War and marked the beginning of East-West rivalry.

Frozen soil extracted during the Cold War reveals a time when Greenland was free of ice. It could happen again

Russian influence in Africa has deep historical roots, from supporting an attempted coup in Ghana to spreading fake political news in Algeria and training African fighters in Crimea. FRANCE 24 looks back on four little-known Soviet operations aimed at furthering Russian interests in Africa during the Cold War

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent caught selling damaging secrets to the Russians during and after the Cold War, died of natural causes last month inside Colorado’s notorious Supermax prison, the El Paso County coroner found.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin develops his network of influence in Africa, he isn’t doing so at random. He is drawing on the rich history of Soviet relations with African countries that dates back to the 1960s and the efforts made by Russian spies during the Cold War to counter…

The Vale was the NHS' first purpose built hospital, with the looming shadow of the cold war playing a major role in its location - and design.

U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts have endorsed the biggest shakeup of the way the military alliance would respond to any attack on its territory by Russia since the Cold War

A Spy Among Friends stars Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce in an espionage thriller based on a true story of treachery during the Cold War.

U.S. senators from New Mexico and Idaho are making another push to expand the federal government’s compensation program for people exposed to radiation from uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the Cold War

Nato members are set to approve the most comprehensive shake-up of the alliance’s defence plans since the end of the Cold War.

As pundits and Western officials speculated wildly this week on what the apparent exile of the Wagner Group and its chief Yevgeniy Prighozin to Belarus might mean, Germany announced it would move to base 4,000 troops -- an entire combat brigade -- in neighbouring Lithuania.