Cold War

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Recently a friend asked me about Huawei and to explain why the name continues to be in the news. My answer: Its like watching a reality TV show. There is no shortage of d…

This past June, R&B singer Cautious Clay was on tour in Bergen, Norway when he received a frantic 2 a.m. phone call from his lawyer. “They were like, ‘You have to approve this sample….We need an answer in 24 hours.” The request was coming from an unlikel…

Like many of you, I have clear and vivid memories of the last decades of the Cold War. But by the time I was a kid the whole “duck and cover” incoming nukes drills were a thing of the past and seen as a bit hokey and arcahic. One of…

Ivanka Trump and her older brother, Donald Trump Jr., have represented a “good cop/bad cop” contrast in the Trump world. Ivanka has been trying to position herself as more of a right-wing intellectual and sort of a Millennial Peggy Noonan — her father has had…

Lara Prescott can trace her interest in Dr. Zhivago back to the beginning the very beginning of her life. She's named after one of the main characters in Boris Pasternak's novel about a doomed love affair at the time of the Russian revolution. (Prescott's mot…

Stock your bunkers, America, were back in the Cold War. Or many Cold Wars, it seems. Pundits and politicians alike declaim that were locked in a new Cold War with China, that were in the throes of a cyber arms race with the rest of the world, and that Russias…

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would produce missiles that were banned under a landmark Cold-War era nuclear pact that ended last month, but that Moscow would not deploy them unless the United States did …

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers.Sledgehammer Games, which made Call of Duty: World War II most recently and is said to be part of a big development shakeup at Activision, has opened an office in Melbourne, Australia. Developer Alayna Cole an…

Note to Self: The Ten Americans Who Did the Most to Win the Cold War: Hoisted from the Archives](https://www.bradford-delong.com/2019/02/note-the-ten-americans-who-did-the-most-to-win-the-cold-war-archive-entry-from-brad-delongs-webjournal.html): Harry Dexter…

Science fiction films are rarely about the future. Their distant planets and remote time periods instead seem to reflect upon the concerns and anxieties of the contemporary moment. For instance, 1978's Invasion of the Bodysnatchers played on the US public's f…