Cold War

Comment of the Day: Kaleberg: "'...the general effect of cold war extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union by the end of the 1980s.' - George Kennan. 'The suggestion that any Administration had the power to inf…

Stock your bunkers, America, were back in the Cold War. Or many Cold Wars, it seems. Pundits and politicians alike declaim that were locked in a new Cold War with China, that were in the throes of a cyber arms race with the rest of the world, and that Russias…

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would produce missiles that were banned under a landmark Cold-War era nuclear pact that ended last month, but that Moscow would not deploy them unless the United States did …

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers.Sledgehammer Games, which made Call of Duty: World War II most recently and is said to be part of a big development shakeup at Activision, has opened an office in Melbourne, Australia. Developer Alayna Cole an…

For many viewers, watching Chernobyl crystallised parallels between widespread cultural panic around the nuclear threat and what were feeling now in the face of climate change. For veteran activists and therapists, the link has been clear for some time. The …

Note to Self: The Ten Americans Who Did the Most to Win the Cold War: Hoisted from the Archives](https://www.bradford-delong.com/2019/02/note-the-ten-americans-who-did-the-most-to-win-the-cold-war-archive-entry-from-brad-delongs-webjournal.html): Harry Dexter…

Science fiction films are rarely about the future. Their distant planets and remote time periods instead seem to reflect upon the concerns and anxieties of the contemporary moment. For instance, 1978's Invasion of the Bodysnatchers played on the US public's f…

Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network has been generating strong word of mouth here at the Venice Film Festival where it premieres in competition tonight. The spy drama, based on Fernando Morais’ book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War, stars Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramí…

Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says he is concerned that the U.S. is heading toward a new-age Cold War with China. On Sunday, a new round of U.S. tariffs against China is due to go into effect, but former Secretary of Defense under President Obama, …

Like the twentieth-century Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the new rivalry between China and the West is a contest between fundamentally incompatible political systems. And the idea that freedom and democracy will prevail can no longe…