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- 1From:The CriticAngus Reilly IN OCTOBER 1986, IN A CLAPBOARD, possibly haunted, house on the windswept Icelandic coast, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev came agonisingly close to promising the elimination of all nuclear weapons....
- 2From:The EconomistThere was something almost comic about the immense Chinese balloon, carrying equipment the size of a small passenger plane, that drifted over America for days until it was popped on February 4th by an American fighter...
- 3From:MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Vol. 35, Issue 2)In light of the many and varied amazing spy "gadgets" that have appeared in popular films and television shows about espionage--cue Oddjob's razor-edged hat in the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger--anyone can be forgiven...
- 4From:The New American (Vol. 38, Issue 19)"Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of remarkable vision," declared President Joe Biden, who also extolled the "courage" of the former Soviet dictator, whom he described as "a rare leader." According to UN Secretary-General...
- 5From:Sound & Vision (Vol. 87, Issue 6)If you are of a certain age, you might recall the phrase "duck and cover!" You might also recall your fifth-grade teacher, Miss Boswick, stopwatch in hand, urging you to immediately take shelter under your desk. And...
- 6From:The New American (Vol. 38, Issue 18)Witness Osh, Kyrgyzstan, a modest outpost in Central Asia. Boiling clouds enliven the sky as a breeze lazily strums the tall grass. Meanwhile a farmer tends his yaks, as clouds of gnats move across a meadow in a body...
- 7From:Claremont Review of Books (Vol. 22, Issue 4)THE CLOSEST THE WORLD EVER CAME to nuclear war was almost certainly the Cuban Missile Crisis. But the closest we've come since--until now--was fall 1983. October 1962 is well-documented and well-remembered. Not so the...
- 8From:New Statesman (Vol. 151, Issue 5678)Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February changed everything. It transformed the post-Cold War security landscape of Europe, killed off any hopes of reconciliation between Moscow and the West for at least a generation...
- 9From:The American Conservative (Vol. 21, Issue 4)"The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century," said Russia's new ruler Vladimir Putin in his 2005 state of the nation address. "As for the Russian people," Putin went on, "it...
- 10From:New Statesman (Vol. 151, Issue 5673)On 14 June the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a list of individuals sanctioned for the deliberate "dissemination of false and one-sided information about Russia and events in Ukraine and the Donbas", and...
- 11From:American History (Vol. 57, Issue 2)In 1961, the Cold War was running hot. The same week in April that a CIA-backed invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro exiles flopped spectacularly, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth, another first to go with the USSR's...
- 12From:Alaska Business Monthly (Vol. 39, Issue 6)The Alaska Army National Guard is giving away property. Dozens of buildings across the state are no longer needed. The divestiture program began in 2013 with a building given to Shaktoolik Native Corporation, and in 2021...
- 13From:Mother Jones (Vol. 47, Issue 3)I grew up learning to speak Russian. The Cold War was at its height in the early '80s, and my school in Germany offered English as a second language in fifth grade and Russian in ninth. Just in case, you know? We were...
- 14From:The Advocate (Issue 1121)With its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been a constant presence in the news this year, and the freedoms of Russian citizens are again a subject of discussion. At the same time, along comes the film Firebird, about a...
- 15From:USA Today (Vol. 150, Issue 2924)AS VLADIMIR PUTIN began his brutal war against Ukraine, alarm bells went off in the West. A new Cold War was emerging, more complex and challenging than before. China, Russia, and Iran had shown their teeth for some...
- 16From:The National Interest (Issue 179)As the United States counters the rise of China, it is taking steps to meet the challenge to its global leadership, boosting investment in technology and infrastructure, shifting military assets toward Asia, and...
- 17From:Spectator (Vol. 348, Issue 10103)The end of the Cold War was used by the victors to unite Germany. To balance this, Europhiles created a single currency which, by replacing the deutschmark, would 'hold Germany down'. The reverse occurred. The euro made...
- 18From:Economic & Political WeeklyByline: Jawahar Bhagwat The strategy of deterrence ought always to envisage the possibility of deterrence failing. --Bernard Brodie Recently, Russia raised the alert level for its nuclear forces in response to what...
- 19From:The EconomistLike Harry Truman after 1945, Joe Biden must strive to curb both Russia and China without blowing up the world J OE BIDEN entered the White House last year styling himself on Franklin Roosevelt. The better model today...
- 20From:American Heritage (Vol. 67, Issue 2)On August 19, 1991, CNN was providing nonstop live coverage of an attempted coup against Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Allied with the KGB, hardliners from inside the disintegrating Communist regime had sequestered...