Oleg Gordievsky, Britain’s most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86
Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England. He was a double agent who helped change the course of the ...
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The Cold War in 1970
The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...
The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War – for good reason
During the Cold War, the US poured support into Arctic military outposts and climate research amid fears of a Russian ...
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The Soviet model and the economic Cold War: A vindication of the viability of socialism
9, No. 2, November-December 2022 The Soviet model and the economic Cold W... The Soviet model and the economic Cold War: A vindication of the viability of socialism This is the metadata section. Skip ...
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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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The Cold War
Post-WWII, tension between the USA and the Soviet Union led to a worldwide Cold War. Reasons for this included: ideological differences, problems in Germany, the arms race and the Korean War.