Cold War

<p><span class="deck">The soldier-historian-novelist Ralph Peters looks at how the world has changed in the past decade, and finds that America is both a hostage to history and likely to be saved by it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Our common history isn’t all pleasant, but seeing it firsthand is deeply moving.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The United States Information Agency did not long survive the Cold War that it had helped to wage. But, today, the lessons it taught us may be more useful than ever.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Six aspects of the man - three personal and three political - hint at how posterity will view him.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A final interview with the most controversial father of the atomic age, Edward Teller</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What a skeptical biographer discovered about a very elusive subject</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">During their vacation, a couple from the United States crossed Checkpoint Charlie and had a harrowing experience as they encountered soldiers on both sides of the Berlin Wall.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On the 25th anniversary of two famous Reagan speeches, the former Speaker of the House asks why we haven’t learned more from the 40th president.</span></p>

<p>Miscalculations and blunders by world leaders precipitated the Korean War 60 years ago.</p>

<p>Largely unknown to his cabinet, Ronald Reagan broke with previous U.S. policy and initiated a global campaign of economic and political warfare against the Soviets.</p>

<p>Much of what we know today about the leadership of the Soviet Union during the Cold War is attributable to the late son of Nikita Khrushchev.</p>

<p>After three of his plane's engines flamed out, Captain John Murray was forced to land at night during a ferocious storm in the middle of the ocean. </p>