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Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...
In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story ...
Joseph Finder, who writes frequently about Russia, is the author of 17 novels including, most recently, “The Oligarch’s ...
This almost-conflict became known as the Cold War - a doom-laden time humanity would like to forget. But with Iran's nuclear ...
Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...
Cold War Nuclear Tests: Testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, underground, underwater and above the atmosphere—using weapons shipped via rockets—has been an ongoing phenomenon since ...
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War Charlie English Harper Collins, €23.99 In early April 2006, George C Minden died at his Manhattan home, aged 85. “For 37 years, [Minden ...
Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...
‘The Shakers: A World in the Making’, Falé and the Hannah Ryggen Triennale The Vitra Design Museum considers how Shakers have inspired designers. Then: we head to Senegal to meet the co-founder of ...
This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a ...
Vendors sell food to Tazara passengers at a train stop in eastern Tanzania. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng. This long-haul railway stretches from the port city of Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to New ...