The Cold War involved negotiations and crises as well as competing political systems. These articles connect the nuclear confrontation over Cuba, the suppression of the Prague Spring and the Reykjavik summit with the international order that emerged after 1945.
History
On October 14, 1962, a U-2 aircraft photographed Soviet installations in Cuba. The images did not speak for themselves: they had to be interpreted, checked and brought to the…
Politics
On October 11–12, 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Iceland and discussed cuts that reached far beyond earlier arms-control proposals. They left without a treaty.…
History
In the early hours of August 21, 1968, Warsaw Pact tanks crushed the Prague Spring and handed the world the Brezhnev Doctrine—the claim that Moscow could overrule any neighbor…
Opinion
Eighty-one years after Japan's surrender, the order born in 1945 brought the West peace and prosperity — alongside a contradiction the victorious democracies never resolved.
