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Cold War

The trials of Ethel Rosenberg

US NATO Army on training in Germany

Able Archer 83: the Nato war-game that nearly spelled nuclear disaster

The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know

Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee

How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?

Sending the first man into space

Spy plane photos revealed that missile bases were being built on Cuba, prompting the crisis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What if...The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated?

The Cold War: everything you wanted to know

Hunting down the Portland Spy Ring

Castro and the trip that shaped the 1960s

The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage vessel disguised as a mining ship, designed to secretly recover Soviet sub K-129

Project Azorian: the Cold War CIA mission to snatch Soviet nuclear sub K-129 from the sea floor

Dag Hammarskjöld

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing?

Ernest Bevin

Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall: everything you need to know

Summer reads 2020: the best history books to take on holiday (or staycation)

The Cuban Missile Crisis: everything you wanted to know

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world

Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in a scene from the 1962 film 'James Bond: Dr. No' (Photo by United Artist/Getty Images)

The spies who inspired Bond

Astronauts being lifted from the Apollo 13 spacecraft after splashdown in the South Pacific,1970. (Photo by Alamy)

Apollo 13

A Burglar Looks In, Picture Post 1950. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Burglary: a modern history

From Allies to enemies

Setting a trap: East German soldiers construct the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961. The barrier was an attempt to stop the flood of Germans fleeing from east to west – yet, as scores of audacious escape bids attest, it didn't entirely succeed. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Escape from East Berlin: an audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall

Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

Presidents under pressure: the resignation of Richard Nixon and the impeachment case against Trump

The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall

A man attacks the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of November 9th, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to the West. The announcement was misinterpreted as meaning the border was now open and East German border guards were unable to stop the rush of people to the Wall. Within hours people were smashing sections of the Wall with their own hand tools and these first cracks in the Wall led to the complete opening of the border within days. (Photo by robert wallis/Corbis via Getty Images)

In pictures: remembering the Berlin Wall 30 years on

Peter Hennessy on Britain in transition

Changdeokgung Palace in South Korea

TravelSeoul, South Korea: a modern metropolis rising from ruins

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

Have nuclear weapons helped to maintain global peace?

Launch of the Apollo 16 mission, 1972. ((Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

The Space Race: The Cold War rivalry that put humans on the Moon

MK Ultra: the secrets of the CIA's mind-control programme