Sanger, a veteran reporter, tells a familiar story about how the hopeful era that followed the Cold War gave way to renewed great-power competition.

The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming decades between two global superpowers. The United ...

The event touched off an especially tense period of the Cold War. Three weeks after the crash, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov received an alert at the command center of the USSR’s satellite ...