Cold War

The Emirati company DP World said in 2017 that it had agreed to invest $336 million under a 30-year contract to expand and run the port in Bosaso. The company pledged $440 million the previous year to develop a port in Somaliland. Qatar moved quickly to capi…

Given its economic, military and technological trajectory, together with its authoritarian model, China, not Russia, represents by far the greater challenge to American objectives over the long term. That means President Trump is correct to try to establish a…

Some of the earliest surviving banknotes and a Cold War nuclear radiation calculator are among 325 historic objects unearthed by the Bank of England to celebrate its 325th anniversary. Britain's central bank is the second oldest in the world after that of Sw…

In April 1949, the poet Pablo Neruda strolled onstage at the First World Congress of Partisans for Peace, in Paris, and apologized for being late. Hed been unavoidably detained, he joked. Over the preceding months, hed lived in hiding, shuttling between a ser…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Images from the Apollo 11 mission were projected onto the Washington Monument in Washington DC Thousands of people have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. On 20 July 1969, the Eagle m…

Photo via Nasa. Happy anniversary everybody, YouTube host Matt Billon says into the camera. Fifty years ago, they faked going to the moon. Its an amazing accomplishment. I hope theyre celebrating with something big... he says while trailing off to think of …

LONDON — Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off for the moon, a new space race is on. It is one that may affect the future of humanity even more than its Cold War predecessor, both on earth and in the wider cosmos. As a…

Just beyond a long, elegant hall of mostly headless, ancient Greek statues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City lies a chunk of Jimi Hendrixs guitar, which the rock legend doused in lighter fluid, lit ablaze, and slammed into the ground at the M…

The was housed in a former underwear factory overlooking the Charles River, now long since demolished. The Apollo engineers and programmers labored at scuffed metal desks in cubicles with code scribbled on the chalkbo…

Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin salutes the American flag on the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969. Aldrin was the second man to ever step foot on the lunar surface. The first was Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11's mission commander. Fifty years ago, Nei…