Cold War

Facing Existential Risk: How the U.S. Survived the Atom Bomb and the Ozone Hole

William Heegaard | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: College Thesis Project, Thesis Project, The Thesis Project, Ozone Depletion, Nuclear War, Human Extinction, Cold War USSR, Existential Risk, Cold War, US Foreign Policy, Ozone Hole, College News
William Heegaard

In this project I examine the history behind American perception of human extinction. I explore how existential risk has shaped foreign policy by tracing the domestic debate over nuclear war and ozone depletion.

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Flailing NATO? Big Questions Surround Obama's Showcase Chicago Summit

William Bradley | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Russia, World News, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, European Union, Vladimir Putin, Asif Ali Zardari, Libya, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Nato, Gulf Cooperation Council, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Cold War, Afpak, Dmitry Medvedev, Soviet Union, Nato Summit 2012, Politics News
William Bradley

There's a lot of confusion about the ballyhooed NATO Summit in Chicago, intended as a big boost to Obama's geopolitical leadership, showcased in his hometown. Here are some big outstanding questions about NATO's future.

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From Russia (To Fort Carson), With Love

AP | DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: US Training Russian Soldiers, Russians at Fort Carson, Russians Training in US, Russian-Soldiers, Video, Russian US War Games, Russian US Joint Training, Cold War, Russian Soldiers in US, Denver News

By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press DENVER -- The Russians are coming – in fact, they're already here – but it may not be what you think. Twent...

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PHOTOS: Germany's Fairy Tale Railroad

Jim Calio | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Faust, Germany Railroads, Goethe, Blizzard, Railroads, East Germany Spy Station, Steam-Engines, Vintage Trains, Cold War, Brocken Railway, Harz Mountains, Slideexpand, Travel News
Jim Calio

In fact, every year on April 30, local villagers get dressed up like witches and devils and ride the rails from town to town in celebration of Walpurgis Night.

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U.S. Diplomat Peter Van Buren Speaks About American Public Diplomacy

John Brown | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Public Diplomacy, Alec Ross, Iraq, Public Affairs, Foreign Service, Cold War, Facebook, Voice of America, Twitter, Committee on Public Information, Propaganda, PETER VAN BUREN, United States Information Agency, State Department, Edward R. Murrow, Bbg, Haditha Massacre, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, World News
John Brown

"Any communications strategy plays second to reality. So as long as deaths from misplaced drone attacks, atrocities by soldiers and videos of Abu Ghraib exist, you are not going to fool anyone regardless of how many tweets you send out."

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Kissinger And Scowcroft Weigh In On Nuclear Reductions, Governor Romney Should Listen

Jon Wolfsthal | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Brent Scowcroft, Obama-Admnistration, Dod, Cold War, Henry Kissinger, New Start Treaty, Politics News
Jon Wolfsthal

He has already tried to channel an early version of Ronald Reagan by casting Russia as America's great enemy. Will he continue to maintain that Russia is America's "number one geopolitical foe" (they are not)?

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Manhattan Project Scientist Dies

AP | SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Chemistry, Obituary, Cold War, Video, George Cowan Dead, Manhattan Project, George Cowan Santa Fe Institute, George Cowan Dies, George Cowan Manhattan Project, Santa Fe Opera, George Cowan Scientist, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, Science News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Devoted to finding a way for science to help society, not much escaped the influence of chemist George Cowan. From the Manhattan ...

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First Man In Space Celebrated 51 Years After Historic Mission

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Esa, Yuri Gagarin Anniversary, Soviet Space Program, Sputnik, Space, Yuri Gagarin, First Man to Orbit the Earth, First Human in Space, Cold War, Vostok 1, First Man in Space, Space Race, Soviet Union, Video, Science News

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 04/12/2012 12:51 AM EDT on SPACE.com For more than five decades, humans have been suiting up and riding rockets t...

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Dictator's Widow Brands Regime's Victims 'Criminals'

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Communism, Video, Iron Curtain, Gdr, Eastern Europe, Stasi, Margot Honecker, Erich Honecker, Berlin Wall, Cold War, German Democratic Republic, Fall of Berlin Wall, Soviet Union, World News

Margot Honecker, the widow of East Germany's communist dictator Erich Honecker, has given a defiant interview in which she defends her late husband an...

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American Jobs and the Never Ending Politics of the Cold War

Edward Goldberg | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Russia, U.S. Economy, Unemployment, Trade Deficit, Trade Deals, Trade, Economy, Economic Crisis, Free Trade, Cold War, Tarriffs, Business News
Edward Goldberg

U.S. trade policy needs to be based on what is good for the U.S. economy and U.S. job growth. And Congress needs to recognize that in an ever more globalized world, using trade as a political instrument to fight yesterday's wars is at best self defeating.

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Forget the Film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: See the BBC Original

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Kgb, Cia, Gary Oldman, Moscow Center, John Le Carre, British Secret Intelligence Service -MI6, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Cold War, Alec Guinness, Colin Firth, Philby, Entertainment News
Eric Margolis

Writing about films is not something I often do, but as an old Cold Warrior who has covered intelligence matters for decades and been involved in a few, the thrilling book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is right up my dark alley.

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Dream Homes for the 2012 Apocalypse

Harmon Leon | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Survival Condo, Cold War, High Risk Loan, 2012 Apocalypse, Real Estate, Kansas, Mayan Calendar, Battlestar Galactica, Humor, Video, Comedy News
Harmon Leon

The Mayan calendar predicts that 2012 will be the apocalypse: the end of the world as we know it! So start stocking up on all those bottles of water; we don't want another Y2K on our hands, do we?

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Lee Speigel

Debris From 'Russian Roswell' UFO Controversy To Be Unveiled At First-Ever Area 51 Exhibit

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Area 51, Russian Roswell, Bob Lazar, National Atomic Testing Museum, Ufo, Flying Saucers, Cold War, Weird Nevada, Las Vegas, Groom Lake, UFO News, Video, Unexplained Phenomena, George Knapp, Slidepollajax, Weird News News

Area 51 has been called the most secret place on Earth that never existed. And for a long time, that was true. On March 26, the Smithsonian-affilia...

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Obama's Controversial Plan for Nuclear Sanity

Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Nonproliferation, Department of Defense, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Republicans, Cold War, Iran Nuclear Weapons, US Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Richard Schiffman

The U.S. rightly wants to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Yet by what right can we ask others to abstain, when we ourselves continue to maintain an arsenal large enough to destroy life on the planet several times over?

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Blowback, TINA-Style

John Feffer | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: There Is No Alternative, Democracy, Arab Spring, Free Market, Cold War, US China Relations, Dictatorship, Soviet Union, World News
John Feffer

The very ideology that the United States assumed would defeat all comers has in fact been turned against the United States. Liberal democracy contains within it the very seeds of the American empire's destruction. Call it blowback, TINA-style.

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Economic Consequences of War on U.S. Economy: Debt, Taxes and Inflation Increase; Consumption and Investment Decrease

Michael Shank | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Pentagon, Institute for Economics and Peace, Economic Consequences of War on US Economy, Inflation, Taxes, Education, Jobs, High-Tech, Debt, Cold War, Wars, Afghanistan War, Department of Defense, Vietnam War, Iraq War, Korean War, Military Spending, Defense Spending, Investment, World War II, Deficits, Economy, Politics News
Michael Shank

The organization for which I work, the Institute for Economics and Peace, released a new report this week detailing the macroeconomic effects of U.S. ...

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The Union of Collaboration and Intervention In Global Affairs

Katherine Krauss | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Global Intervention, Russia-United-Nations, Basahar Al-Assad, Cold War, Syria, China United Nations, Vietnam War, United Nations, High School News
Katherine Krauss

Any effort by any one country alone will inevitably be smaller than the collective acts of a group of nations; it's just simple math. We need more nations united behind a single cause.

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Joshua Hersh

Syria Crisis: Turkey Inches, Somewhat Reluctantly, To The Forefront

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Turkey Syria, Russia, Sectarian War, Turkey, Uprising in Syria, Foreign Affairs, Syria Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Cold War, Ahmet Davutoglu, Sunni-Shia Divide, Syria Crisis, Hillary Clinton, Syria, China, Friends of Syria, World News

WASHINGTON -- When Turkey's Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, arrived in Washington late last week, he came with a clear and direct message about the...

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'Communist Indoctrination' High School Worksheets Sparks Outrage

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Social Studies, Roosevelt High School, Communism v. Capitalism, Des Moines, Cold War, High School Social Studies, Des Moines Schools, High School Assignments, Cold War Lesson, High School Lessons, Iowa Schools, Video, School Worksheet, Des Moines Iowa, High School, High School Worksheet, School Assignments, High School Communism v. Capitalism Worksheet, High School Cold War Lesson, Education News

Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa is receiving criticism for one class assignment on the Cold War. Based on a worksheet handed out in a social...

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Doomsday Clock Announcement...Are We Closer To 'Midnight'?

LiveScience/The Huffington Post | Stephanie Pappas | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Atomic Age, Minutes to Midnight, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Age, National Security, Doomsday Clock, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Cold War, Science News

UPDATE: The 'Doomsday Clock' has been moved forward. We're now 5 'minutes from midnight.' View a live stream of the announcement and rationale here. ...

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Six Essential Truths about U.S. Nuclear Policy

Joe Cirincione | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: New York Times, Phil Taubman, Department of Defense, President Obama, Cold War, Nuclear Weapons, US Nuclear Warheads, US Nuclear Policy, US Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

Phil Taubman writes in the Sunday New York Times what many people in Washington think about our outdated nuclear policy, but few say. He makes six key points.

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To Gain Workers' Votes, Gingrich Slanders Poor

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Poor, Unemployment, Cold War, Newt Gingrich, American Dream, Republicans, Child Labor, Youth Employment, Gingrich Child Labor, Gingrich Youth Employment, Child Labor Laws, Politics News
Rev. Jesse Jackson

What America needs is someone who will challenge the entrenched interests and big money that now so distorts our politics. Gingrich offers a man who profits from those interests, while preying on, not praying for, the weak.

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First Nighter: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Alec Guinness Spectacular on DVD

David Finkle | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: mi5, Sian Phillips., Warren Clarke, Hywel Bennett, Alexander Knox, Ian Bannen, John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Cold War, Alec Guinness, BBC Television Series, John Standing, Terence Rigby, Gary Oldman, Joss Ackland, mi6, Michael Jayston, Colin Firth, Ian Richardson, Beryl Reid, Patrick Stewart, Focus Feature Film, Entertainment News
David Finkle

The beauty of John le Carré's continuing canon is that his scrutiny of spies' lives is always a metaphor for humanity's broader existential predicaments.

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Huntsman Is Like Reagan

Brent Budowsky | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Freddie Mac, Jack Kemp, New Hampshire, Jon Huntsman, Conservatism, Fannie Mae, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, 2012 Election, Erick Erickson, Cold War, George Will, John McCain, Jon Huntsman for President, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jon Huntsman Reagan, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

Like Reagan, and unlike Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, there is a linear consistency to Huntsman's life, philosophy, career and achievements.

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Fighting Terrorists, Not Soviets

Burns Strider | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Soviets, American Values Network, Military, Terrorists, U.S. Military, Nuclear Weapons, Budget, Presidential Debates, Cold War, Burns Strider, Politics News
Burns Strider

Times have changed. We don't play vinyl records on our iPods; we don't use pay phones when we're out and need to make a call. And, we shouldn't be funding last century's battles, especially when it comes at the expense of our troops.

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