Elizabeth Shackelford: In a stunning comeback, Russia wins the Cold War
Donald Trump seems either unaware or unconcerned that Vladimir Putin’s plan is to weaken the United States too.
Inside Porton Down: what I learned during three years at the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory
Porton Down’s archive was opened up for a study into the health of the human volunteers in the nerve agent testing programme.
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How Europe must respond as Trump and Putin smash the post-war order
Speaking in Munich last week, America’s vice-president, J.D. Vance, offered a taste of how the home of fine wines, classical ...
War Has Become a Force of Planetary Destruction
In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn ...
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Thompson: The raid on Riva Ridge in 1945
February 18, 1945, 700 men of the 10th Mountain Division began one of the most daring raids of World War II. They had scouted and selected five trails to secretly ...
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South Florida woman walks in her father’s footsteps 80 years after the WWII pilot’s evacuation from Nazi POW camp
The father of a South Florida woman was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II. Eighty years later, she got to ...
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Vladimir Putin Wants A Second Yalta
The Kremin has been actively promoting the idea of a new Yalta agreement, that new lines in the sand must be drawn for modern Russia.
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The neglect of Asia was the great failure of Yalta, writes Stephen Kotkin
Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...
Tariffs Are Sword And Shield Of U.S. Economic Security
The forceful Realpolitik application of U.S. trade policies and tariff threats is intended to support U.S. national security ...
Federal workers were targeted for loyalty during the Red Scare
President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...
Britain’s conservative second world war
Kit Kowol’s first book, released at the end of 2024, achieves the rare feat of fundamentally revising our understanding of British politics and society during the Second World War.
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The First Cold War: 1945-1991
Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? Drawing on his own experience of living in the Soviet Union for the first 30 years of his life, the author traces the origins of the ...