Cold War

Editor’s note: Lisa Ruth Rand was the winner of the 2018–19 NASA/AHA Fellowship in Aerospace History. On a March day during the final weeks of the heated 2019 Indian election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a startling announcement—the Indian space progr…

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Deniss Metsavas served for many years with the Estonian Defense Forces and was, at the same time, a Russian spy. In this video for The Atlantic, Metsavas describes how he was recruited by Russian intelligence using komproma…

Huawei Lifeline Shows Trump Prefers Business Deals Over Cold War - Bloomberg

President Donald Trump has never been afraid to stir up a tempest, which is why he has already indicated that this weekend he will be discussing the political crisis gripping Hong Kong with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Chinese Assistant Foreign Minist…

(WASHINGTON) — Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cited an awkward encounter with President Donald Trump’s son-in-law in a Washington restaurant as an example of diplomacy being conducted behind his back when he was in the administration, according to a …

South Asian countries are often at odds with each other for political, economic, and emotional reasons. The conflicts are a frustrating contrast to the promise of the region. Covering only 3.5% of Earth's landmass, but inhabited by 23.7% of humanity, the regi…

UnitedHealth Group added PatientsLikeMe, a Cambridge, MA-based social network startup that connects patients to others with similar health conditions, to its growing menagerie of acquired firms, per CNBC. Business Insider Intelligence PatientsLikeMe has b…

In 1989, just before the collapse of the USSR, the Pepsi Company cut a deal with Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev that left it with a fleet of Russian military ships, making PepsiCo temporarily the sixth-largest Navy in the world. In the 1950s, the Cold War…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Image of a "desert kite," or game trap, captured by a U2 Spy Plane. National Archives and Records Administration During the Cold War, the United States…

In this post, I quantify the severity of the nuclear winter we might expect to result from a nuclear war between the US and Russia (Guesstimate model here). Researchers who have studied nuclear winter estimate that a nuclear war that produced between 50 and …