Cold War

AT THE END of 1989, an American in London received a call from a friend back home. The caller had watched the fall of the Berlin Wall and the toppling of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania with growing dismay. He was at the end of a four-year course in Russian Stud…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin US-China tech race  photo credit: Getty Getty The United States and China are competing for global dominance of world-changing technologies. Its a pivotal moment. In the ebb and flow of histor…

The U.S. Air Force's E-4B, otherwise known as the "doomsday plane" may be able to withstand the force of a nuclear detonation. This mostly windowless Boeing 747 was designed during the Cold War, and it indeed looks like a blast from the past, according to CN…

Huawei has stopped smartphone production after previously announcing its target to become the world's top smartphone vendor by next year, according to a report from the South China Morning Post. The report specified that the halt was by Foxconn, "the Taiwane…

South Korean troops stationed along the world's last Cold War frontier have been put on high alert in the face of a new infiltration threat from the nuclear-armed Northfever-stricken wild boar. An outbreak of African swine fever that has cut swathes through …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Harvard graduates to "tear down the walls of ignorance" in a commencement address at the univeristy Thursday, a rebuke interpreted as a thinly veiled attack on US President Donald Trump. Though she did not name the pre…

Clarida Sets Easing Scenario, New Cold War, U.S. GDP : Eco Day

Washington (CNN)The arms control framework curbing a US-Russian arms race came under further strain this week as Russian President Vladimir Putin took formal steps to withdraw from a landmark nuclear missile treaty and the US charged that Moscow is violating …

China could unleash a trump card in the tech Cold War

Wall Street's warnings about Apple's business in China are growing louder. The technology giant's iPhone sales could get cut in half during the second part of this year as a direct result of the escalated trade tensions between the US and China, according …