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Ames, a 31-year CIA veteran, admitted being paid $2.5 million by Moscow for U.S. secrets from 1985 until his arrest in 1994.

Aldrich Ames betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence ...

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The Cold War remains one of the most intriguing periods of modern history, marked by a unique tension between two superpowers without an actual war breaking out. This era, spanning roughly from 1947 ...

In face of the growing systemic conflict between the West and China and the sudden escalation of tensions with Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, the concept of the Cold War reappears in ...

Renata Keller received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world ...

DURING THE cold war, risk management was a life-or-death exercise for political and military leaders. To assist them, front-line troops in Europe and Asia were tasked with monitoring, in real time, ...