Cold War

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…

Revelations of an alleged Russian intelligence operation to murder opponents and spread chaos across the European Union were met with a mix of wonder and derision in the intelligence community. Russia's decision to return to formalized violent operations in t…

Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics says globalization has peaked.De-globalization could have a major impact on the global economy, as well as geopolitical stability. A Trumpian backlash to globalization has res…

Around 20,000 US soldiers will deploy to Europe next year for the largest US Army exercise in 25 years, the US military announced Monday. "Defender 2020 in Europe" is intended to "increase strategic readiness and interoperability by exercising the US militar…