Cold War

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland said on Tuesday it was probing reports that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the German BND spy service used a Swiss firm's encryption technology to crack other nations' top-secret messages.The company, called Crypto AG, sold code-making equipment to Iran, India, Pakistan, Latin American nations and…

If their example is buried under the rubble of impeachment, all of us will lose. We cannot allow their principled behavior to be dismissed as an anachronism in a world where power trumps principle. We cannot allow their experience to become the realization of Steve Bannon’s fever dream of the…

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: As the nation focused on President Trump’s impeachment trial, a major story recently broke about a new development in U.S. nuclear weapons policy that received little attention. The Federation of American Scientists revealed in late January…

Coming Thursday, Feb. 6th: Cagaster of an Insect Cage Thirty years after a disease that turns the infected into carnivorous insects emerged, a young exterminator and a teenage girl search for her mother. Coming Friday, Feb. 7th: The Ballad of Lefty BrownDragons: Rescue Riders: Season 2 The Rescue Riders continue…

The exotic cruise destination of Hoek van Holland Haven.A couple of months ago I wrote a piece about the evolution of hackerspaces, and mentioned that I’d be attending a party for a hackerspace birthday. As I write this that party was last weekend, and it was celebrating both the birthday…

Mastercards CEO, Ajay Banga, says that nationalism could influence consumer payment systems. How will central banks respond if they face competition inside their economies from digital currency? UKRAINE - 2020/01/30: In this photo illustration a Mas…

In December 1982, Samantha Smith, a ten-year-old girl from Maine wrote a letter to the Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, expressing her fears about a potential nuclear war. Andropov wrote back in April 1983 (copies of both letters), the main Soviet newspaper Pravda quoted her letter, and the Smith family was…

Explorer 1 was less than 2 meters long and weighed about 13.4 kg. The model William Hayward ... Pickering, James Van Allen, and Wernher von Braun are brandishing triumphantly in this photo is the spacecraft's full size. NASA On January 31, 1958, the first American satellite blasted into orbit. In…

China may be the worlds No. 2 arms producer, according to a new estimate. If true, this is bad news for Russia. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union accounted for the bulk of global arms production. The United States is still No. 1, bu…

I have a vivid memory of playing on a rocket ship playground in Los Angeles about 45 years ago. I've often wondered about what the playground really looked like, because I remember a tall, gleaming, multi-story rocket ready to take off. Thank you for posting these!posted by Crankatator at 4:32…