Former US president Ronald Reagan previously questioned whether it's sensible to start a nuclear war based on a blip on a radar screen. "The best sort of hitting the nail on the head statement is ...

Former US president Ronald Reagan previously questioned whether it's sensible to start a nuclear war based on a blip on a ...

KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end ...

‘Both Gorbachev and Reagan said that their science communities told them that if they had a nuclear war, that it was going to kill everybody on the planet mostly,’ he says. ‘So, Reagan and ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader most responsible for bringing the Cold War to a non-nuclear conclusion. Reality: In the 1970s, as presidential scholar Kiron Skinner has written, Reagan formulated ...

Homeland defence is not some abstract concept to the countries bordering Russia, nor is the nuclear threat, says defence analyst Francis Tusa. So, if the US could use a ‘kill switch’ to stop the UK ...