Cold War

Soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division's 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team started arriving in Europe this week for a nine-month rotation as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve. The 2nd ABCT's rotation is the fifth one by an armored brigade in support of Atlant…

Ask anyone in the space business and they’ll tell you that orbital debris is a serious problem that will only get worse, but dealing with it is as much an opportunity as it is a problem. Leo Labs is building a global network of radar arrays that can track sma…

Key point: It served in nearly every theater throughout the Cold War. The USS Enterprise, hull number CVN-65, was officially decommissioned back in 2017, which means it is no longer officially on the Navys register (the ship was actually transferred to inact…

What Mr. Leonov did not reveal until many years later was that he and his fellow cosmonaut, Pavel I. Belyayev, who was also an Air Force pilot, were fortunate to have survived. Mr. Leonovs specially designed suit had unexpectedly inflated during his walk, an…

MOSCOW — Russia’s space agency says Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow. He was 85. Roscosmos says in a statement on its website that Leonov died on Friday. It did not provide details. Leonov performed his spacew…

Key point: Moscow's deadly weapon is pointless but is still apart of mutually-assured-destruction. On May 22, 2018, the Russian submarine Yuri Dolgoruky slipped beneath the waves of the Arctic White Sea. Hatches along the submerged boats spine opened, floodi…

The US and China are locked in an intensifying cold war, and the global tech industry is at the center of it.  The standoff affects everything from supply chains to the sites everyday consumers can use — the US recently banned companies like Huawei from doin…

Looks like a very cool game for Apple Arcade — a sneak-around puzzle game with a Cold War era spy motif. Looks cool, great music. Amazingly, developer Spruce Campbell is 14 years old. ★

Image copyrightReutersImage caption The Berlin Wall was opened by accident on 9 November, when an East German Communist Party official announced that anyone could leave It's one of the most bizarre guided tours I've ever been on. I'm driving around Berlin …

Image: Cold War propaganda poster “Is This Tomorrow” depicted America under communism. During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its efforts to fight subversives, the United States ended up with i…