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Cold War

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.

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

Did the Cold War ever really end?

The president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt and his staff gathered together in New York to find a solution to the economic crisis. 1935. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Icons: the game changers of the 20th century.

JFK prepares to sign the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union. (Picture by Corbis/Getty Images)

Nuclear nightmare: the Cuban missile crisis.

St Basil's Cathdral, Moscow. (Photo by Dreamstime)

The spy who changed the Cold War.

Britain’s foreign policy secrets.

The mystery of Donald Maclean.

The Marshall Plan and the Cold War.

Children at the Berlin Wall on Sebastianstrasse, Berlin - Kreuzberg - in around 1964. (Photo by Lehnartz/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The secret history of the Berlin Wall

The LibraryVoices of the Cold War.

Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev looking disappointed frustrated

The 1986 Reykjavík Summit: when hopes for nuclear peace were dashed.

Former US president Ronald Reagan and president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 16 September 1990. (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)

Transcending the Cold War.

Cold War summits.

Soviet missiles in Red Square during the May Day Parade of 1962, the year the world came closest to nuclear war. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

History explorer: the Cold War.

The Cold War and the history of philosophy.

The Peasants’ Revolt and a Cold War spy.

The end of the Cold War and British culture.

Berlin Wall in November 1989

The story of Germany.

Cold War smuggling and First World War veterans.

Cold War spies and friendship through the ages.

Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cold War in your living room.

Cold War culture and the path to the First World War.

The Cold War Olympic boycott.

Communist sport: Cold War copycats.