Jared Harris says two major events helped change the course of Cold War thinking: the Chernobyl disaster and the television film The Day After. Speaking about the historical backstory behind Brink of ...

Themmunist Party of the Soviet Union lost control over its domain between 1989 and '91 for many reasons: It could no longer deliver on its economic promises, it could no longer control national ...

In my lifetime no one person has had the impact on the world that Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Aug. 30 at 91, did. Though Vladimir Putin would attempt to pull down the digital blinds, the rolling back ...

Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30, 2022, at the age of 91, leaving behind a legacy that continues to divide opinions about the final years of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In this ...

If the Chernobyl disaster held one lesson, Mikhail Gorbachev wrote in 2006 on the catastrophe’s 20th anniversary, it was that nuclear devastation – whether caused by an accident or the deployment of a ...

With the end of the 12 day war, the question of regime change in Iran remains central. There are many scenarios, highlighting different factors and views. Analysts contrast the sweeping 1979 ...

On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...

When word came last week that Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last President of the Soviet Union, had died, it was front-page news in the West and a matter of studied indifference in official Moscow.

LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - As Japan considers burying its destroyed nuclear reactors in concrete, as at Chernobyl, other aspects of the disaster at Fukushima have also drawn comparisons with the ...