Checkpoint

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…

Protecting drones from high-power lasers with reflective or thermic coatings is fails to protect. It is a known countermeasure that’s been researched since the Cold War, but modern 100 kW and 300 kW lasers defeat it quickly and reliably for typical small/medium drones (Group 1-3 UAVs like FPVs or commercial…

The cold war between Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and members of the All Progressives Congress representing the state in the National Assembly has reportedly intensified ahead of the 2027 general elections. A top party source in Akure who spoke with Vanguard alleged that the governor has vowed that none…

WASHINGTON: They typically start the day as low-profile Cabinet secretaries. They end it that way, too, God willing. But when the rest of the government is gathered together for a big event, like President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night, a designated survivor is kept away to…

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WASHINGTON, DC -- The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the final remaining bilateral agreement limiting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expired on February 5, closing a chapter that began in the Cold War and survived its end. With no successor treaty in place, the world’s two largest nuclear…