Following their first meeting in Geneva in 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a historic joint statement stating their shared belief that “a nuclear war cannot be ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 152. CIA analysts gathered around U-2 spy plane photographs taken of Cuban military facilities. With horror, they realised they had just ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...

A new global coalition seizes the moment to campaign for a halt and reversal of the nuclear arms race. The risk of nuclear war is greater now than in decades—and rising. Russia is upgrading its ...