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Most people think of the Cold War as a largely bloodless standoff between two rival blocs—one led by the United States and the other by the Soviet Union. That’s why it’s often called the “Cold” War. But once you look beyond that framing, you’ll find numerous conflicts raging across the…

Tara Copp and Noah Robertson Washington Post · 22 Apr, 2026 12:39 AM 5 mins to read Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Photo / Demetrius Freeman, The Washington Post Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Photo /…

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HOUSTON, April 6 (Reuters) - The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission flew deeper into space on Monday than any humans before them, as they cruised through a rare flyby of the shadowed far side of the moon that revealed a lunar surface under cosmic bombardment...Read More

Charming Kitten relies on deception rather than exploiting technical software vulnerabilities Fake identities build trust before phishing attacks compromise sensitive user credentials Operations extend across Apple and Microsoft platforms, affecting diverse users globally Iran-linked cyber operations are drawing renewed attention for relying less on advanced code and more on human…

Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering that still dot the American landscape were designed for…

As the prequel to 2012 film Cold War, upcoming film Cold War 1994 is set to be released on May 1st and features an impressive cast consisting of Chow Yun-fat (周潤發), Aaron Kwok (郭富城), Tony Leung Ka-fai (梁家輝), and Louis Koo (古天樂), Daniel Wu (吳彥祖), Terrance Lau (劉俊謙), Wu Kang-ren…

Without putting any dwarves on stage, Knud Adams has picked up the torch of David Lynch like no other stage director before him. With the same deadpan creepiness lurking just under the wood-panel normalcy of life in America, Adams brings Ro Reddick’s exhilarating “Cold War Choir Practice” to perverse life at…

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A Cold War chemical park in Germany shows how vulnerable Europe is in an era of energy insecurity. Author of the article: Bloomberg News Marilen Martin and Libby Cherry Published Mar 09, 2026 8 minute read 208)9dd5u54gdi]p97h55w08_media_dl_9.png German insolvency courts, compil Article content (Bloomberg) — In the east German industrial town of…