Cold War

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…

Paramount Pictures has set Ron Howard to direct The Fixer, a Tyler Hisel script that tells the true story of a disgraced FBI agent, who at the height of the Cold War, is tapped by the CIA to lead a ragtag team of CIA operatives and Chicago mobsters on an…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will arrive in London on Wednesday for meetings with his UK counterparts.Huawei will be at the top of the agenda when Pompeo sits down with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab today and Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday.There is fury in Washington over Johnson's…

DUBAI (Reuters) - A group of Iranian lawmakers on Tuesday asked parliament to debate a motion for Iran to quit a treaty governing global nuclear arms control, a move apparently aimed at pressuring European powers to salvage Tehran's own 2015 nuclear deal. A …

Movies IRONBARK is a Spy Thriller with Friendship at the Heart Give me an espionage thriller set anywhere between 1939 and 1970, preferably in the UK, and I’m in. It’s a time-tested genre and, as long as they employ certain tropes—secret meetings, razor’s edge tension, maybe a fedora or 90—they…