Cold War

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…

Impatiently awaiting Congressional approval of his Space Force, Donald Trump this week reestablished the Cold War-era U.S. Space Command. Founded in 1985 to provide joint command and control of the Air Force, Army, and Navy’s space forces, SpaceCom has been …

Its not quite the Space Force that Donald Trump really wants, but he just established the U.S. Space Command (aka SpaceCom) in another small step toward getting the U.S. ready for battles in space. At a ceremony in the Rose Garden Thursday afternoon, Presid…

Kip Thorne accepts the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for his decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. (PHOTO) © NOBEL MEDIA AB Nobel laureate and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne counts his decades-long collab…

She praises Prescotts work ethic and devotion to the craft. But also, frankly, I think shes going to earn out her advance. Shes not going to be somebody who sold her book for a ton of money and then is going to be a commercial failure and wreck the rest…

At the funeral for 14 Russian sailors, Captain Sergei Pavlov hailed the blameless heroes for dousing the fire that broke out on their nuclear spy submarine, called the Losharik, during a secret mission last month. At the cost of their lives, Pavlov said, t…