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Malta summit ends the cold war – archive, 1989

On 3 December 1989, the US and the USSR declared an end to the cold war. A few days later, European Community leaders met to shape a single European market for the 1990s. See how the Guardian reported events

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I wrote a book on the execution of the Rosenbergs for Cold War spying – and a recently declassified document has convinced me that Ethel was innocent

The sons of an American woman executed for spying on the United States during the Cold War want President Joe Biden to clear her name before he leaves office.

The Conversation

'We didn't know what it was at first.' NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet

NASA scientists conducting surveys of arctic ice sheets in Greenland got an unprecedented view of an abandoned "city under the ice" built by the U.S. military during the Cold War.

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Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp break out the star-spangled bunting to celebrate Thanksgiving

In which Britain's top light entertainment couple cover a Cold War classic

Louder

'Lunik Heist:' A real-life CIA rocket kidnapping goes to Hollywood

"At a time like this, we need to find more stories from the days when Americans outsmarted the bad guys and planted our flag on the moon."

Space

Beijing's Fears After Trump Fills Key Posts With China Hawks

Donald Trump's cabinet of China hawks have likened the nation's communist rulers to Nazis, levelled Covid conspiracies at them, declared a Cold War, and flagged much greater military support for Taiwan.

International Business Times

Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths

Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat reveals the curious link between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Black African prime minister

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Toxic Towns In Kyrgyzstan Battling Radioactive Danger

In a mask and a hazmat suit, Ermek Murataliyev drives a truck filled with Soviet-era radioactive waste along the winding mountain roads of Kyrgyzstan.

International Business Times

Defence Secretary John Healey challenged to increase department spending to 2.5%

Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he expects the Strategic Defence Review to find that the UK is facing the biggest threat since the Cold War.

Evening Standard

Berlin Celebrates 35Th Anniversary Of Fall Of Berlin Wall

Germany marks the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall with concerts, art, and tributes, emphasizing freedom and unity.

Top News

Thirty-five years since the wall fell, Berlin is divided – over what to do with crumbling communist buildings

The 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, an event that powerfully symbolised the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and signalled the end of the cold war, is an opportune moment to take stock of what remains of East Germany (GDR) in the capital of Germany.

The Conversation

Russian Senators Ratify North Korean Defence Pact

The agreement formalises months of deepening security cooperation between the two nations, which were Communist allies throughout the Cold War.

Latin Times

Dr Strangelove at the Noël Coward Theatre: Steve Coogan’s masterclass performance is the highlight of this Kubrick adaptation

In September last year, the Stanley Kubrick estate announced that actor, impressionist and comedian Steve Coogan would be taking the lead role (all four of them) in a play of Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This is the first ever stage adaptation…

The Conversation

In Trump’s pledge to target bureaucrats, some hear Cold War echoes

Donald Trump has promised to root out “rogue bureaucrats” if he regains the White House, and an outside group has compiled a “subversive” watchlist.

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The Independent UK

Dr Strangelove review: Steve Coogan is stellar but this is a safe spin on a classic

3/5 Armando Iannucci and Coogan team up to bring Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire to the West End, but the production is constrained by aiming too hard for cinematic perfection

The Guardian - UK

Dr Strangelove review – Steve Coogan scores a quadruple cold war coup

Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers’ three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptation

The Independent UK

Nick Harkaway steps into his father John le Carré's footsteps with spy thriller 'Karla's Choice'

Fictional spymaster George Smiley is back

Evening Standard

Criminal sanctions could be brought over harm suffered by nuclear test veterans

Nick Thomas-Symonds said the duty of candour brought forward as part of the proposed Hillsborough Law will apply to cases of nuclear test veterans.

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Salon

The new nuclear threat: Worse than ever

Nuclear arsenals are vastly more powerful today than during the Cold War — and the risk of apocalypse keeps growing

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin 'fears Soviet-style collapse' amid budget pressures to fund war in Ukraine

Warning comes after Russia’s government unveiled plans to hike defence spending to highest levels since the Cold War

Inverse

A Retired Cold War Spy Plane Discovered Something Really Weird About Thunderstorms

Out of 10 thunderstorms the aircraft flew over, 9 of them were alight with gamma rays, suggesting that large thunderstorms churn up gamma rays shockingly often.

Barchart

S&P 500 Index: The Hunt for (a) Red October

October is known for all things pumpkin, but it's also a bullish month for the S&P 500 index, a potential hot button issue for today's version of the Cold War.

The Conversation

Chess: a game rooted in military strategy that has become a tool of international diplomacy

Hushed silence descends as two opponents engage in a battle of wits, memory and strategy. The atmosphere becomes more tense with each shuffle of a pawn or sweeping arc of the queen. The drama is palpable, but there can be only one winner. This year – at the 45th Chess…

The Conversation

Cold War Scotland show reveals impact of conflict on Scottish politics, culture and memory

The night before Halloween, 1976, my pals and I played an exhilarating game of Grand National, jumping across neatly tended hedges and lawns. We were going to see The War Game, a terrifying docudrama depicting the consequences of a nuclear attack on Britain.

The National (Scotland)

How a Cold War fire truck became an iconic symbol of the independence campaign

THE Spirit of Independence truck, which clocked up some 2500 miles crisscrossing Scotland during the independence referendum campaign, is often…

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