Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet on August 15, echoing the historic Reagan-Gorbachev summits of the 1980s. The article explores the potential for a renewed "peace dividend" if diplomatic progress ...

'The Brink of War,' which co-stars Jared Harris and J.K. Simmons, opens in August.

George Shultz took office as President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state in July 1982. At the time, Leonid Brezhnev still sat atop the Soviet system. For years before that, the Soviet Union had ...

President Reagan races against time to salvage a deal with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that could dismantle nuclear ...

On Aug. 1, 2025, the Office of the Historian published National Security Policy, 1985–1988 Part 1, which focused on President Ronald Reagan’s pursuit of the Strategic Defense Initiative and Strategic ...

A journalist, an ambassador and an academic discussed former president Ronald Reagan's accomplishments during the Cold War in a panel Wednesday afternoon. The panel, titled "Ronald Reagan in ...

Summits between heads of state are high-stakes gambles to achieve breakthrough solutions. Typically, they are judged on whether they help resolve an intractable international issue. But sometimes, ...

Change is suspect at the Pentagon, now and forever, as President Ronald Reagan discovered in the waning days of the Cold War. In 1986, Reagan had the heretical idea that the United States should make ...

Few surviving 20th-century political figures are so fraught with symbolism as former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Aestheticized in late and post-Soviet culture and the Western Cold War imaginary, ...