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"The second round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian in Istanbul showed both sides’ desire to reach an agreement." ...
The UK government wants to buy US fighter jets capable of using tactical nuclear weapons, in particular free-fall bombs, the ...
We’ve already worked through the theory that Donald Trump is reviving the expansionist foreign policy of Gilded Age America ...
We looked at a random 1958 edition of The Cincinnati Enquirer to see what it told us. The paper highlighted Cold War tensions ...
The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted ...
An evidently unprepared Obama administration made no serious protest of Putin's seizure of Crimea and occupation of part of ...
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During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet scientists call Earth's " twin sister". Three flew past Venus, and went into orbit ...
Both countries had ulterior motives, of course; the ostensibly friendly rivalry in the name of science allowed the two superpowers, already engaged in the Cold War, to quite openly develop and ...
Found Image Holdings Inc/GettyImages The USSR launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I ... an especially tense period of the Cold War. Three weeks after the crash, Lieutenant ...
Labeling current developments as a "Sputnik Moment" may not inherently carry malice, but it aligns with Western media's penchant for dramatizing events. While the Cold War is history, the vision ...
Moreover, because the Soviet Union never developed particularly strong ties with Western economies, Sino-American rivalry is much more complex than Cold War 1.0. Recollection of the “Sputnik ...