During the Korean War, British pilot Peter “Hoagy” Carmichael did the unthinkable—he downed a MiG-15 jet using a ...

Tom Lehrer, a social and political satirist who amassed a devoted following in the 1950s and 1960s for routines featuring blithely subversive musical numbers such as “So Long Mom (A Song for World War ...

One year after Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, the Democratic Party faces internal division between ...

I N THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain ...

The latest flare-up started on Thursday, with intense fighting spreading across multiple border areas. Early Saturday, ...

The comedian/mathematician laughed at the threat of nuclear annihilation, denounced discrimination and poked fun at politics ...

Alert: Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics and the Cold War, dies at 97, friend says LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics and the ...

Forgotten.    In case you missed it too, June 25 marked the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War — the first hot front of the Cold War.   No ceremonies or any acknowledgment took place ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

Historians pinpoint the Cold War as starting with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 and ending with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It's likely the U.S. is going to be entering a prolonged ...

The following is a script from “The New Cold War” which aired on Sept. 18, 2016. David Martin is the correspondent. Mary Walsh, producer. One of the key questions of this presidential campaign ...

“Cold War” is a near-perfect film, an artfully crafted, flawlessly acted meditation on love, memory and invented history that’s both deeply personal and politically attuned. Written and ...