The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening at a site where East meets West in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold ...

Eighty years after Hiroshima, the idea that nuclear war can be controlled is making a comeback.

Russia has said it is no longer restricted in the deployment of intermediate and shorter-range missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads.

U.S. President Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-Lai toast each other at the end of a banquet in the Great Hall of the People in Peking, on Feb. 21, 1972. Former Congressman Alan W. Steelman remembers ...

What began as U.S. economic pressure aimed at forcing Russia to make peace with Ukraine and then escalated into nuclear sabre-rattling, is now headed toward a very Cold War-like summit: a face-to ...

The meeting with Trump helped give the Kremlin leader much of what he wanted, including putting Russia on an equal footing with the U.S.

He writes of fierce battles, brutal terrain, and Russian soldiers barely older than boys. Despite mounting hardship—cold, mud, and exhaustion—Carl clings to pride in his cause.

Hours later, Medvedev responded in kind, invoking the “Dead Hand,” a Cold War–era Soviet nuclear command system allegedly designed to trigger automatic retaliation if Moscow were struck.

Medvedev retorted that Trump's reaction proved Russia was right and alluded to the "Dead Hand" concept, a Cold War-era nuclear deterrent, in response to Trump's "dead economies" remark.

This “super-cartel” won’t just be a criminal syndicate trafficking migrants and drugs: It will operate more like a rogue state.

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev slammed President Trump’s new deadline for a cease-fire in Ukraine as “a threat and a step towards war.” ...