Cold War Studies News Today

Norman M. Naimark is a senior fellow (courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. He is also the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies and a senior fellow of Stanford's Freeman-Spogli Institute. Naimark is an expert in modern East European and Russian history. His...

A direct link for immediate negotiations was established between the White House and the Kremlin in 1963 following the Cuban Missile Crisis. Little is known about how Washington and Moscow currently communicate.

Grey Anderson — NATO’s twin dynamics—eastward expansionism within Europe, aggregated military operations outside—have brought it to the brink of a major international war, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But what is Washington’s real interest in the Alliance?

The Conference of States Parties (CSP) to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) closed on Friday in Tokyo. This circus will come to town in Geneva again next August, but I can’t believe anyone is eager for the big top to re-open. Of all the ATT meetings I have attended since 2012, this was by far the least consequential.

In one of the biggest espionage scandals of the Cold War, he handed over NATO plans and other secrets. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

There is growing concern over the security of the gas supply lines of the Norwegian gas rigs as winter approaches.

William C. Potter reviews a Journal of Cold War Studies article by Mariana Budjeryn.

Insights from Joseph Torigian.

The US government today likes to pretend that it is the perennial champion of political independence for countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain.

Douglas Macgregor said the U.S. was being undermined by the same types of people who purportedly undermined Russia "years ago." (Who were Jews.)