Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86
LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN1mon
Cold War’s best kept secret: Spy satellite that stayed hidden for 30 years
Throughout the Cold War’s iciest ... from a Russian military advisor. These disclosures highlighted U.S. engineers’ intense ...
Gadget Review on MSN8d
The Pepsi-Soviet Deal: A Complex Trade of Soda, Vodka, and Warships
Pepsi's historic deal with the Soviet Union involved exchanging soda for vodka and later acquiring Soviet warships, marking a ...
The Republic23d
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...
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Energy and the Fall of Détente
Drawing on newly declassified documents that reveal the central role of energy in the unraveling of détente, Guy Laron explores how escalating energy crises in the 1970s transformed US-Soviet energy ...