The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was one of the most successful and versatile fighters of the Cold War, a Mach 2 workhorse for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines. -Initially designed with the ...

It's hard to overstate just how violent and commie-hating American pop culture was in the 1980s. The late wrestler was among ...

Editor’s Note: The CNN Original Series “Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game” examines the tenuous global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky ...

The current U-2S runs on a General Electric F118 turbofan. Lockheed Martin describes the Dragon Lady as “ an agile and ...

Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

ABC’s 1983 film overcame censors, political interference and spooked advertisers to become one of the most-watched TV events of all time.

It’s an uneasy watch now, but “The Day After” was even more affecting when nuclear war was on the table and top of mind. It’s still one of the most-watched TV events in US history ...

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — In November 1983, the US, Soviet Union and the rest of the world were teetering closer than ever on the edge of nuclear war. A NATO military exercise had spooked ...