"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...

Examines the events preceding, during, and after the confrontation between the United States and Cuba over the presence of Soviet missiles there.

Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between Soviet Russia and the United States from the end of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.

Discusses the origins of the Cold War and its effects on Europe, Asia, and the United States, nuclear threats, detente, and the future of the relationship between Russia and the United States.

Chronicles the Cold War, from its origins in the Soviet Revolution as the twentieth century began to the collapse of the Soviet Union as the century closed.

For almost 50 years after World War II, the antagonism caused by two rival ideologies-democracy and communism-dominated international politics. In the first comprehensive study of the cold war since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, James Warren takes a thoughtful look at where America has been and where we might be headed.