Cuba gets less attention as an espionage threat than Russia or China, but is a potent player in the spy world. Its intelligence service has already penetrated the US government at least once.
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A climate of fear about international war inspired Eisenhower’s Atoms of Peace speech in 1953, his words about global peace seem relevant to global peace today.
A historian of the Middle East examines the decades-old ‘special relationship’ between Israel and the US.
Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
Relations between the U.S. and China have been particularly tense for the last few years. Can one summit between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping significantly improve relations?
Moscow has pulled the plug on yet another safety valve preventing conflict with the west.
John le Carré and Ian Fleming, the world’s most famous spy novelists, share experience in UK intelligence and difficult childhoods. But their heroes, George Smiley and James Bond, are very different.
The overwhelming majority of Muslims in Mozambique reject the violence of the insurgents and their quest for a caliphate.
Beloved in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter became the 39th US president and used his office to make human rights a priority throughout the world.
While a few Republican politicians have aligned with former President Donald Trump’s isolationist foreign policy position, most candidates continue to push for the traditional stance of engagement.
The Cold War was an economic standoff as well as an atomic one. The author of a new book describes the minds behind the great ideological battles on that 20th-century front line.
It is not mere expansion, but the character of the expansion which will guide the five Brics countries on whether they admit new members.
Climate modelling in the 1980s offered the first glimpses of what might lie beyond a nuclear war.
Nuclear weapons production and testing contaminated many sites across the US and exposed people unknowingly to radiation and toxic materials. Some have gone uncompensated for decades.
Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
The sites provide a rare tangible record of the international solidarity that existed during the Cold War.
China has provided Russia with economic support during the war in Ukraine. But Beijing may be concerned over recent events in Moscow.
The Soviets controlled the media, set up camps for dissenters and installed politicians who would do their bidding in east Berlin and east Germany.
The allies determination to ‘save’ Berlin by flying planes in day after day in 1948, was a symbolic turning point.
If Russia moves nuclear warheads into Belarus the political fallout could be enormous.
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