Reagan won the Cold War
As we debate whether we’re in a new Cold War, a recent movie and book about President Ronald Reagan’s legacy have inspired ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
The Odd Arctic Military Projects Spawned by the Cold War
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...
Foreign Affairs13d
Reagan Didn’t Win the Cold War
One of the biggest such myths is that Reagan had a plan to bring down the “evil empire” and that it was his pressure that led ...
50 years ago in Expo history: Was the cold war thawing? Soviet relations at the fair seemed to suggest so
The term referred to a thawing trend in the three-decade Cold War, and visiting Soviet officials were presenting an amicable ...
Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg's Cold War spy case
A top U_S_ government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel ...
CounterPunch3d
Reagan’s Lessons: In and Out of Cold War
With the exception of Donald Trump, no president in my lifetime had a more shallow knowledge of history and foreign policy ...
Putin ally warns West of nuclear war over Ukraine
A close ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Western governments on Thursday that a nuclear war would ensue if they gave ...
Putin is winning the new Cold War. It’s time to go on the offensive
The US government this week revealed – in a treasure trove of never before seen material – the scale of covert Russian plots ...
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Declassified documents shed light on Ethel Rosenberg’s involvement in her husband’s Cold War spy case
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about her husband’s activities but “did ...