The great excommunicators are out once more to defend the establishment’s hawkish foreign policy. They may pretend it is over bigotry, but every excommunication always focuses upon those who express ...
Young and Stateless World Service/BBC Sounds, 12.06pm What does it mean to be a citizen of nowhere? Across the world, ...
Silver screen gun-slinger John Wayne reportedly hated communism so much that he was the target of an assassination plot ...
The Russians are coming!” Throughout the Cold War that phrase expressed the anxiety felt by Western democracies about the possibility of a surprise nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Half jest the ...
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Khrushchev in America 1959: A Cold War Gamble

In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev toured the United States, from Hollywood to Washington. His goal was bold—cool tensions and reshape the Cold War ...
Tomorrow, Namibians will once again take part in that democratic event called elections. I call it an 'event' as it is a one-day exercise, save for uninspiring and unprofessional election campaigns.
Discover the dramatic story behind the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. This video explores its Cold ...
It’s unavoidable. If you go to a game, the ballpark grub being served is going to be as much a part of the experience as the ...
It offers a sovereign Ukraine solidly in the West with reliable security guarantees, while Russia would be enticed back from the bowels of Eastern Asia.
The workers’ uprising at the Electric Locomotive Factory – Suppression with 24 dead and 87 injured – The brave General ...