Cold War

Updated 14 August 2025 at 12:15 IST US President Donald Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska — a site that for decades played a pivotal role in countering Soviet military threats and continues to guard against Russian incursions today. Follow…

Updated 5 August 2025 at 21:52 IST Russia abandons the INF Treaty, citing US actions and NATO's anti-Russian policy. Global tensions escalate as nuclear arms control agreement collapses. Follow :   Russia Abandons Nuclear Treaty With US Following Trump's Submarines Deployment | Image: AP Moscow: After Donald Trump's order to…

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On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully tested its first nuclear weapon. Over the next year and a half, U.S. President Harry S. Truman resurrected the Office of Civilian Defense (which had been abolished at the end of World War II) and signed into law the Federal Civil Defense…

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D uring the first year of the Korean conflict, in 1950/51, senior military officials in Canada, Britain, and the United States became concerned about the development and use of so-called mind control techniques by communist forces. Authorities cited public denouncements of the conflict made by captured American soldiers as evidence…

Benz drew historical lines between Cold War-era covert programs and figures like Epstein, Khashoggi, and even Martin Luther King Jr.. Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec spoke with Mike Benz on Tuesday in a wide-ranging discussion about intelligence operations, government secrecy, and Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged connections to the intelligence community.…

The renowned satirical songwriter and math prodigy, Tom Lehrer, died at the age of 97. He was found dead at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Saturday, Longtime friend David Herder confirmed. Who was Tom Lehrer? Born in 1928 in New York City, Tom was the son of a prosperous…

China has issued a sharp rebuke to comments made by Peter Lamelas, the US ambassador-designate to Argentina, saying they reflected a “Cold War mentality” after he accused Beijing of fostering corruption and being a malign influence across Latin America. At his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Lamelas said he intended…

From the Cold War till Donald Trump, there’s always been a special dispensation for hawkish bigots. Commentary editor John Podhoretz hands out his presidential pardon: “Trump bombed Iran. He can say Shylock 100 times a day forever as far as I’m concerned.”(John Lamparski / Getty Images) John Podhoretz inherited from…