With Cold War tensions running high and the nuclear arms race dominating global politics, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev came together for the first time at the Geneva ...
Dark Space Official on MSN

The Secret Laser Launched into Space

As the Cold War raged between the United States and the Soviet Union, the possibility of taking the war to outer space seemed ...
University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Willerton claims transformed his country ...
In the days surrounding the funeral of his predecessor, KonstantinChernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev met with countless delegations from aroundthe world. Vice President Bush was the head of our U.S.
When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sit down to discuss a potential nuclear arms treaty in the upcoming film "Reykjavik," the actors portraying them, Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris, will be ...
Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure with a complex legacy. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people—which he genuinely was—he increasingly became despised by many within ...
1952 – Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 – Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...
Max Boot, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at CFR and a columnist for The Washington Post, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss Ronald Reagan’s life and his ...