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Netflix’s A House of Dynamite sounds the nuclear alarm, but how worried should we be?

As a teenager in the 1980s, I was shown a BBC drama in school called Threads that depicted the impact of a nuclear strike on a city in northern England. Threads is a brutal vision of a terrifying reality that I imagine haunted many people in the years before the…

The Conversation

A Nostalgic Read for Foreign Policy Elites

Michael McFaul's new book feels like it was written in 2015, not 2025.

Reason

Did Aliens Watch Our Nuclear Tests? Scientist Links 100,000 UFOs to Atomic Blasts in Chilling Report

A Swedish astrophysicist's study of vanishing stars has been miscast online as proof of alien monitoring of nuclear tests — but scientists say that's fiction, not fact.

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UFOs! Mick Jagger! Cold War paranoia! The bizarre origins of one of the biggest hits of the 1980s

The smash hit song reflected both the decade's geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism

MusicRadar

From the cold war to today, why espionage cases are so difficult to prosecute

The collapse of the prosecutions of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry is a reminder that bringing charges for espionage can be an extremely risky business, particularly in western democracies. Cash and Berry were accused of spying for China, but the CPS dropped the case before it could go to trial.…

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‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks, on 19 October 1945, George Orwell published an essay in the London Tribune, entitled “You and the Atom Bomb”. In it, he surmised what if “the great nations make…

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Microchip factory in Netherlands caught in tussle between Europe, China and US

Dutch authorities have, for the first time ever, invoked Cold War-era legislation to take control of a Chinese-owned microchip factory – prompting backlash from China. The move underlines the intensifying competition between the United States, China and Europe for global leadership in semiconductor technology.

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“That song wanted to be written! You don’t plan something like that”: Nena speaks to us about the making of her era-defining classic 99 Red Balloons

We catch up with Nena on a song that reflected both the 1980s’ geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism - and took some inspiration from Mick Jagger

MusicRadar

Appeal to preserve last flying Vulcan bomber for future generations

The Vulcan to the Sky Trust said the Cold War bomber has a home but they need funds

Evening Standard

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games

A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm

The Guardian - UK

Le Carré, Bacchae and radical feminist punk art – what to see and watch this week

John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex characters navigating the shadowy ethics of Cold War intelligence. Gritty, ambiguous and deeply human,…

The Conversation

From bombs to glass: Hanford site can now transform nuclear waste

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end of the Cold War

The Independent UK

Is Black Ops 7 at risk of cannibalizing its own audience with Endgame and Zombies? Treyarch says that "player-driven pacing" is a key difference between the two co-op game modes

Treyarch says Endgame grew out of "a lot of learnings from Black Ops Cold War's Outbreak and Modern Warfare Zombies"

GamesRadar

EU drone wall: Keep calm and prepare, expert says

Alexandr Burilkov told Euronews that European countries are lagging far behind Russia and Ukraine when it comes to drone technology, but leaders should not overreact to the recent drone incidents.

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The Guardian - AU

Australia’s Future Fund discloses huge profits from weapons manufacturers despite fierce criticisms of support for industry

Value of shares in eight companies rockets amid sharpest increase in military spend since cold war

The Guardian - UK

Russia’s provocations are menacing Nato. The cold war shows how it needs to respond

Despite the cost of shooting down fighter jets and drones, small skirmishes remind both sides of the dangers of escalation, says academic Sergey Radchenko

Space

Astronaut Chris Hadfield explores murder in space in new Cold War space thriller 'Final Orbit' (exclusive)

Hadfield's 'Kaz' Zemeckis returns for this third entry in the bestselling author's 'The Apollo Murders' series

Reason

Donald Trump Is Not a Peace President

Trump struggles to articulate any foreign policy view with much coherence, and has a fragile ego that makes world conflicts all about him.

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We tracked every overseas trip by world leaders since the end of the Cold War – here’s what we found

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has so far seen the U.S. president travel to foreign lands to sign billion-dollar deals, attend lavish royal welcomes and attempt to forge elusive peace agreements amid conflicts and crises. And on Sept. 17, 2025, he is expected to visit the United Kingdom…

The Guardian - US

Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville commands cold war thriller

The Oscar nominee makes for a compelling heroine in a solid and intermittently suspenseful tale of a professor stuck in a nightmare

Evening Standard

The Defector: KGB agent's defection after Soho drink drive arrest changed the shape of the Cold War

The Evening Standard scooped the world in 1971 with the first and only picture of Russian defector Oleg Lyalin, who is now the subject of a compelling new book

The Independent UK

Cold War bunker goes up for auction near Bristol: ‘Discreetly integrated underground room’

A floor plan shows Room One — the only room

The Independent UK

Xi Jinping accuses West of ‘bullying behaviour’ and ‘Cold War mentality’ at showpiece summit with Putin

The Chinese leader made a thinly veiled swipe at Trump’s tariff policy as he unveiled a new economic vision for non-western countries

The Guardian - UK

Art and politics are not the same thing – but the Anna Netrebko case shows what happens when they collide

The arts and politics are bound to mix, but they are not the same thing. In the cold war, Soviet artists performed in the west. Should the Russian soprano, who has condemned the Ukraine invasion, be blocked from singing in London?

Benzinga

Trump's Tariffs 'Shredded' Decades Of West's Efforts To Wean India Away From Moscow, Says John Bolton

Former national security adviser John Bolton sharply criticized President Donald Trump's tariff strategy on Monday, arguing it has undermined decades of Western efforts to draw India closer and counter China's rise.

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