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“We need to get away from an uncontrolled Cold War model of the kind that prevailed between the United States and the Russians in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to a more managed competition ...

The global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. BBC Two's new Cold War Season explores the cultural and political impact of a conflict that divided the world.

The UK has over decades underinvested in its previously much larger reserve forces as limited funding since the end of the Cold War was prioritised towards the full-time army, Royal Navy and Royal ...

As early as 1943 the Swedish government distributed a leaflet: “If the war comes: Instructions for Swedish citizens”. Swedish governments updated their advice regularly during the cold war ...

Military experts gamed out for Newsweek how they see a potential World War III starting, including key players and the factors to watch as the world edges closer to the potential for major conflict.

It is designed to give the British and US governments warning of an impending ballistic missile attack (part of the so-called four-minute warning during the Cold War). In addition, the UK has 24/7 ...

The political backdrop to John Nash's paranoid and geopolitical hauntings included the Cold War, fought not only with spies and bombers stationed abroad, but by FBI agents, demagogue senators ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov clashed indirectly with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at an annual security meeting in Malta, accusing the West of reviving the Cold War and provoking ...

Ermanno Rizzo, who lives in Moscow with his wife, a Russian citizen, was accused of holding a single-personpicket under the Spasskaya Tower on Red ... banned anti-war statements and news that ...

NATO is trying to prepare for both scenarios: an all-out war, and less obvious techniques designed to undermine stability in the alliance's member countries. A Newsweek graphic shows various ...