Israel-Iran tensions settle into Cold War-like standoff after U.S. airstrikes, with experts suggesting managed containment as the realistic path forward instead of reconciliation.

The Cold War never fully thawed in this single-stoplight town, nestled in a county of fewer than 4,000 people that seems built for a populace twice ... This is the logic of deterrence in a nutshell.

The Cold War ended without a single shot, nuclear or otherwise, being fired in anger by the United States or USSR against the other. Yet, as relations with Russia and China would grow tenser ...

Regarding Sorin Adam Matei’s “The Ukraine War Calls for a Revival of Deterrence Theory” (op-ed, Aug. 23): Classical deterrence theory had a simple unifying goal: Defend democracy from ...

Some analysts, particularly our own Sumantra Maitra, have argued that the Cold War world system is giving way to an older style of international relations, the concert of powers.As the horror show ...

With the Cold War long over, deterrence lingered as a legacy concept. Certainly, in the 21st century, the use of deterrence has become profligate and even promiscuous.

The proposed concept of MAIM echoes Cold War deterrence strategies. The goal would not be to encourage physical strikes, but rather pose a credible a threat that any attempt at an AI monopoly will ...

Thus, even the current U.S. deterrence strategy of nuclear retaliation, often referenced as a secure, ... pe-emptive strike that worried the United States through much of the Cold War.] ...

In a time when the United States and the Western allies appear weak on the international scene, restoring deterrence needs to be Job One at the NATO 75th anniversary summit.

And so the second half of the Cold War is then marked by this period of nuclear arsenals getting smaller, of arms control. And that was the world that we were in for about 20 years after the end ...

Russia’s use of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile marks a decisive, and potentially dangerous moment in Moscow’s conflict with the West.