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Treyarch continues to support 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with Year 2 content, and a new submachine gun has arrived with the May 6 update. Here's everything you need to know about the UGR submachine gun and how to unlock it. How to unlock the UGRThe UGR…

With tensions between the United States and Russia at a level not seen since the Cold War, and likely not abating no matter the direction the war in Ukraine takes, our national security depends on the integrity of our intelligence community. The FBI and CIA must be able to securely…

For a host of reasons (none of them good), we have entered a new Cold War.  On one side are the dictators and tyrants of genocidal communist China, Putin’s revanchist Russia, and terrorism exporting Iran.  On the other side are the United States and the free world – many of…

In 1992, Asad M. Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries. And he had a problem. The Cold War had ended, crashing…

Commentary Americans, like the planet’s other 7.5 billion people, aren’t prone to talk or think much about nuclear weapons. Of course, some of us are old enough to remember how “mutually assured destruction,” or MAD, was supposed to ensure the general peace. Some recall the eerie Cold War-era nuclear bomb…

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has abruptly transformed the world. We are again talking about nuclear war and World War 3 with the language of the Cold War resurrected. What prevented a nuclear war then was a military strategy, aptly called MAD or mutual assured destruction. “If you nuke me,…

As a rule, American governors make a point to be friendly to their contemporaries in other states, especially their immediate neighbors. At National Governors Association meetings, the chief executives of the various states always seem glad to see their peers. With this in mind, it came as a bit of…

This story was published in partnership with The Center for Public Integrity. This is the sixth in a 10-part series on nuclear risk, military technology, and the future of warfare in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The city of Mykolaiv sits just northwest of the mouth of the Dnieper…

Economy|Biden Invokes Cold War Statute to Boost Critical Mineral Supply https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/business/economy/biden-minerals-defense-production-act.html The action aims to enhance American production of crucial materials for electric vehicles, defense systems and other technologies. Wheel loaders filling trucks with ore at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, Calif.Credit...Steve Marcus/Reuters March 31, 2022WASHINGTON…

Mar 31, 2022 20:06 IST Arindam Bagchi Welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Delhi Mar 31, 2022 20:01 IST Russian Foreign Minister to Meet PM Modi Tomorrow Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who reached India on Thursday, is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow. It would be…