Cold War

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 …

Joe Sestak, a former Navy admiral and congressman from Pennsylvania, said he was joining the crowded field of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020. (Jessica Kourkounis/The New York Times) Written by Sandra E. Garcia Joe Sestak, a former Navy …

What looks like something famous, is much smaller, and is embroiled in a web of cold war cloak-and-dagger intrigue? It sounds like the answer could be Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies, but we were actually thinking of the D-21 supersonic spy drone. Never…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Unlike other mountain ranges, like the Alps where glacier loss is well documented for the last 150 years, there is only scarce documentation for the Himalaya, despite hosting the largest ice mass outside…

Robert Farley Security, Asia Washington beaten in battle? Russia and China Go War Against America. Here's What Could Happen Next. Could Beijing and Moscow coordinate a pair of crises that would drive two separate U.S. military responses? The United State…

Dead bodies starting to thaw on Mount Everest, flooding from glacial lakes, dams bursting and destroying villages: This is a picture of global heating in the Himalayas. A group of researchers have managed to essentially3D-map the slow descent of glacial ice …