Cold War

NASA astronaut Deke Slayton and Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in the Soyuz spacecraft.Credit: NASA The Apollo programme that took humans to the Moon is properly viewed as an outgrowth of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Today, as…

NASA astronaut Deke Slayton and Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in the Soyuz spacecraft.Credit: NASA The Apollo programme that took humans to the Moon is properly viewed as an outgrowth of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Today, as…

The cold war between Amazon and Google began to thaw last year, but the icy relationship between the companies has been a nuisance for far too long already. When relations were at their worst, Amazon didn’t support or sell Chromecasts, and Google blocked YouT…

LONDON (Reuters) - China is not interested in a diplomatic war with Britain but rejects the “Cold War mentality” it has seen from some British politicians over Hong Kong, China’s ambassador to London said on Sunday. There has been an escalating war of words…

LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - China is not interested in a diplomatic war with Britain but rejects the "Cold War mentality" it has seen from some British politicians over Hong Kong, China's ambassador to London said on Sunday. There has been an escalating war o…

I love big airplanes. Passenger planes, cargo planes, bombers, blimps, really anything huge that can somehow stay aloft. That's probably why I went out of my way to tour the Spruce Goose, and why I seek out air museums that feature big, beautiful beasts of th…

If you're like me and you like big bombers and early SAC-era aircraft, Castle Air Museum is excellent. It's a bit of a hike to get to, about 2 hours from San Francisco or Sacramento, but as one of the few places in the world to see some of these…

Last week, at the Aspen Ideas Festival, I interviewed Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of a new book calledThe Curse of Bigness. We talked about antitrust and innovation, and he addressed arguments on the topic made by Facebook. An edited…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Mr Sigley arrived in Beijing on Thursday When Australian student Alek Sigley went missing in North Korea last week, Canberra turned to a country more than 15,000km (9,320 miles) away for help. The Scandinavian nation of…

Mr. Trump seems to see tanks as a symbol of military strength, of Americas ability to bend the world to its will by means of brute force and threats of fire and fury. Having avoided service in the Vietnam War by way of draft deferments, Mr. Trump has presumab…