Clik here to view.
Using Cold War Tactics to Confront Iran
Credit: Wiki Commons/HNN staff.As Americans seek to find an alternative to the stark and unappetizing choice of accepting Iran's rabid leadership having nuclear weapons or pre-emptively bombing its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Ike” and the “Red Menace”: Some Myths Won’t Die
Martin Luther King, Jr. with President Eisenhower in 1956.You probably know the mythic Dwight Eisenhower, the “great peacekeeper in a dangerous era,” who bravely withstood the communist threat while...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eight Things I Miss About the Cold War
Credit: Wiki Commons.At a book festival in Los Angeles recently, some writers (myself included) were making the usual arguments about the problems with American politics in the 1950s -- until one...
View ArticleRobert Service: Review of Anne Applebaum's "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of...
Robert Service is an author and professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His latest book is Spies and Commissars: The...
View ArticleProspero Gallinari, a Terrorist, Is Dead at 62
Prospero Gallinari, who as a member of the Italian terrorist group the Red Brigades was convicted in the kidnapping and assassination in 1978 of Aldo Moro, the Italian prime minister, died Monday after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Could We Actually Learn Something from '50s-Style Civics Education?
During last year's presidential campaign, I asked a class of freshmen students to keep track of each candidate's references to history. They needed a basic knowledge of history -- enough to code each...
View ArticleJon Wiener: 'The Americans': Soviet Spies on Cable TV
Jon Wiener teaches U.S. history at UC Irvine. His most recent book is How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America. The best thing about “The Americans,” the new spy show on FX cable...
View ArticleJon Wiener: Joe Kennedy, Cold War Critic
Jon Wiener teaches US history at UC Irvine.As we head toward the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination later this year, a new book has revealed the striking differences between JFK and his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“War on Terror”: The Ticking Time Bomb
Dick Cheney in 2011, and the infamous Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock.I saw Zero Dark Thirty a few weeks ago and then consumed the whole first season of “Homeland.” Don’t tell me what...
View ArticleRadial routes ran outside Iraq
Spoke-like dirt paths extend as far as five kilometers from several ancient Mesopotamian cities that have been excavated in what’s now northeastern Syria. Although often regarded as transportation...
View ArticleVan Cliburn, pianist and Cold War hero, dies at 78
For a time in Cold War America, Van Cliburn had all the trappings of a rock star: sold-out concerts, adoring, out-of-control fans and a name recognized worldwide. He even got a ticker-tape parade in...
View ArticleFrank Bures: A Travelogue through Cold War Nuclear Installations
Frank Bures is a writer based in Minneapolis. In the early 1980s, when I was a fifth-grader at Jefferson Elementary School, in a small town in Minnesota, our teacher, Mr. Odegaard, asked us if we...
View ArticleGerman anglers call Cold War truce
They are known for nothing if not their patience – which may be one explanation as to why it has taken anglers from the former East and West Germany 23 years to call a cold war truce.What gymnasts,...
View ArticleBerlin Wall section removed despite protests
Construction workers backed by German police have removed a section of the Berlin Wall to make way for a building project, despite calls for the historic site to be preserved.Residents expressed shock...
View ArticleSergey Radchenko: Mao and Stalin, Xi and Putin
Sergey Radchenko is a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, based at the University's China campus in Ningbo, China. He is the author of Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for...
View ArticleDavid Milne: Editing an Encyclopedia
Dr. David Milne is a Senior Lecturer in American Political History at the University of East Anglia. A historian and analyst of US foreign policy, he is a senior editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of...
View ArticleMalte Herwig's new book reveals Germany's postwar Nazi coverup
For the last seven years, the German journalist Malte Herwig, a reporter at Suddeutsche Zeitung magazine, has arduously, conscientiously tackled the challenge of researching and writing a book about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
1983: The Most Dangerous Year of the Cold War
Credit: militarists.ru.Just how close did the world come to full-blown nuclear war in the 1980s?Frighteningly close.That's the conclusion of researchers at the National Security Archive at George...
View ArticleMichael Klare: The Cold War Redux?
Michael Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, a TomDispatch regular, and the author, most recently, of The Race for What’s Left, now published in paperback by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Case for Sparing the Rosenbergs
Credit: Wiki Commons.Sixty years ago this week, Ethel Rosenberg was strapped into the same electric chair that killed her husband Julius moments before. Her gruesome death ended the spy case that...
View Article
