Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...
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The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...
Washington is winding down its European security contributions and backing away from Ukraine. Europeans could learn from ...
The conversation between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin went perfectly to plan, according ...
During their Vienna Summit, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev aggressively challenged Kennedy, particularly on Berlin and nuclear ... like Reagan and Gorbachev’s Cold War-era exchanges, led ...
The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...
Germany is planning to pump billions into defense spending, but the need to better prepare goes well beyond the Bundeswehr.
The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...
At a time of rising geopolitical tensions and deepening global fragmentation, the Ukraine war has proved particularly ...
He played a crucial role in the early days of the C.I.A., as a station chief in Cold War Berlin and Hong Kong, before ...
Berlin—“How do you feel about everything ... an area that was a no man’s land through the Cold War and became a central point in the city again after the wall came down.