Yuri Bezmenov (alias Tomas Schuman), a Soviet KGB defector, explains in detail his scheme for the KGB process of subversion and takeover of target societies at a lecture in Los Angeles, 1983.

A photographer travels the globe visiting defunct cold war sites. By Kenneth Dickerman. Photos By Matt Slaby

Reviving the art of threat inflation. By Andrew Cockburn.

One day a Cuban illustrator walked unannounced into the MAD Magazine offices, and the rest is history. By Eric Grundhauser.

The Cold War saw numerous submarine accidents, especially on the Soviet side. For much of its existence, the USSR tried to maintain a world-beating military with a second-rate economy. Throughout the era, the Soviets struggled to maintain their magnificent weapons of war. In the effort to close this gap, the crews of Soviet submarines often paid with their lives. But only one submarine had the poor luck to sink twice.

An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out. By Raffi Khatchadourian. (Mar. 3, 2014)

“If we know the government is funding the arts or funding journalism, then it behooves us to put structures in place that will allow for them to be fearless.”

On 17 July 1962, a caravan of scientists, military men, and dignitaries crossed the remote desert of southern Nevada to witness an historic event. Among the crowd were VIPs such as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and presidential adviser General Maxwell D. Taylor who had come to observe the “Little Feller I” test shot, the final phase of Operation Sunbeam… By Alan Bellows.

When pilot Viktor Belenko defected, he did so in a mysterious Soviet plane – the MiG-25. Stephen Dowling looks at its far-reaching impact.

Robert Huddleston reviews "German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era," by Monique Laney.

Hillary Clinton and her supporters have turned to ugly McCarthyism in attacking Donald Trump to divert attention from their email scandals, a dangerous use of Russia-bashing, says Robert Parry.

In rural North Dakota, the long shadow cast by nuclear weapons and the Cold War is not as far in the past as we might like to think. By Elmo Keep.

Pentagon leaders warn that Russia is making alarming military advancements. By Kristina Wong.

"The Syrian people have endured horrors and face challenges beyond comprehension. Yet these tragic realities do not warrant intervention by the United States." By Rajan Menon.

“What would Chairman Mao, who died (or, in Communist Party parlance, ‘went to meet Marx’) forty years ago, think of Seoul-based bands being blocked from appearing on Chinese television and touring the mainland because of a South Korean missile programme?” By Richard Curt Kraus and Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world. But were they pawns of US spies in the Cold War? By Alastair Sooke.

Russia's deputy defence minister reveals country is 'reconsidering' the closure of bases in Vietnam and Cuba.

What is most astonishing about this genuine relic of Soviet science that Ortiz Monasterio has brought to light in his photographs is the precarious nature of the installations, the austere conditions in which the scientists worked and lived. By José Manuel Prieto, photographs by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.

Seventy years ago, at Bikini Atoll, weapons of mass destruction became a form of consumer entertainment. By Alex Wellerstein. (July 25, 2016)

They thought the frozen earth would keep it safely hidden. They were wrong. By Ben Panko.