Today in History for Dec. 3: In 1170, Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, returned to England after six years of exile in France. He would be martyred on Dec. 29 -- killed by soldiers sent by his ...

The Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff were so alarmed by Trump’s nuclear ignorance that they held a seminar to brief the president on the nuclear inventory in 2017.  Following the meeting, responding ...

When former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral is held at the Washington National Cathedral, he will join a bipartisan but ...

The Cold War stands as one of the most significant events in United States and world history. Pavel Palazhchenko was in ...

Pavel Palazchenko, Gorbachev’s chief interpreter, shared rare insights on Cold War negotiations, world leaders, and the Soviet perspective during a packed event at the Ritz Civic Center in Arkansas.

Both leaders sensed that Mikhail Gorbachev was a different kind of Soviet leader who, in Thatcher’s words, they could “do business with.” Their policies led to a peaceful resolution of Cold War I.

For over three decades, U.S. “resets” with Russia have failed. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, successive American presidents have entered office and engaged with Russia under the illusion ...

The term "special relationship" has been used to describe the U.S.-U.K. partnership since WWII in the face of Nazi, Germany, but many have argued it was solidified during the Cold War under the close ...

The National Cold War Center (NCWC) will host a Cold War Conversation on Nov. 7 with special guest Pavel Palazhchenko, chief English interpreter for the Soviet Union’s former president Mikhail ...

After the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a less popular area of study and dealing with in comparison to before the end of the Cold War (1949‒1991). In the West, it was believed that ...