Cold War

Putin watches a naval exercise from a cruiser in the Black Sea in Jan. 2020. Photo: Alexei Druzhinin/Russian presidency handout via Getty Images. The U.S. and its NATO allies are urgently grappling with a question that once seemed to have faded along with the Cold War: Will Moscow go nuclear?…

DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. If you'd happened to be in New York's Grand Central Station on the morning of February 20, 1962, you'd have seen 10,000 people standing on the concourse, staring up at a large television screen. They were…

In the past week, I’ve watched with interest as right-wing lawmakers, seemingly self-assured they’ll retake the House this fall, offer conflicting remarks on their political strategy if they regain the majority. There’s tension in the conservative movement. A storm is brewing.  Two clear factions seem to have formed: the pro-legislation…

The Biden administration will soon release its National Security Strategy, which is being revised in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The document will no doubt trigger a renewed debate about how the United States should gear up for a new Cold War against Russia and China.  But before…

Green Brook, NJ – WEBWIRE – Friday, September 23, 2022 The dread of the consequences of a radioactive winter is the nuclear threat. Ever since the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union first entered everyone’s mind, it has been a part of our imagination. The two…

Despite President Biden’s assurances at Wednesday’s United Nations meeting that the US is not seeking a new cold war, one is brewing between the world’s autocracies and democracies—and technology is fueling it. Late last week, Iran, Turkey, Myanmar, and a handful of other countries took steps toward becoming full members…

Last Updated: September 15, 2022, 00:01 IST United Nations Nearly 1,400 people died in flooding in Pakistan that covers an area the size of the United Kingdom and wiped out crops and destroyed homes, businesses, roads and bridges. (Photo: AP) The secretary-general also lamented divisions in the international community, saying,…

The Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev I knew was not the one known to most of the world—statesman, unwinder of the Cold War, Nobel Peace Prize winner.  My Gorbi was an old romantic who, in 1993, in the midst of the chaos from the Soviet Union’s collapse, helped launch one of Russia’s…

Russian Honor guards stand near the coffin with the body of the late former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, during farewell ceremony Saturday at the Hall of Columns of the House of Trade Unions in Moscow. Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA-EFE Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Thousands gathered in central Moscow on Saturday…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russians who came for a last look at former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday mourned both the man and his policies that gave them hope. President Vladimir Putin claimed to be too busy to attend. Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at age 91, launched drastic reforms that…