List of Cold War articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The White House Just Made It Easier to Travel to Cuba
The White House just made it easier for Cuban baseball players to work in the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Are We Entering a New Cold War?
It’s not a strong Russia we should fear, but a weak one.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Communism Wins Again: North Korea Invents Hangover-Free Alcohol
Scientists in North Korea claim they have invented hangover-free alcohol.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Washington and Havana Mail In Closer Ties
The United States and Cuba announce that normal mail service will resume between the two former rivals.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia Is Repeating Cold War Mistakes in Syria
In 1957, the Soviet Union’s ally Egypt intervened in Syria’s messy politics. It didn’t go well. Why does Putin think this time will be different?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Does It Matter Whether Japan Says Sorry for Its Wartime Behavior?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to give a major speech on Japan’s World War II aggression. But in Tokyo, history is never really about history.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Things I didn’t know: U.S.-Soviet Cold War shenanigans in Finnish airspace
Two things I learned from one article in the new issue of the Journal of Military History
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cold War Symbolism: Not Just for the 1950s Anymore
You don't have to be a musty old relic to know that symbolic gestures still have a place in the fight to defend freedom and democracy from Russia.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Will 2050 Look Like?
From China’s population to NATO’s irrelevance, we actually know more about the future of the world’s power dynamics than we might think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Pope Francis Inspires Raúl Castro to Go to Church
Warming relations between Havana and the Vatican demonstrate a broader trend of reconciliation between the once-hostile ideologies, which has accelerated under social welfare-minded Francis.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Andrei Soldatov and Joe Weisberg Talk Russian Intel
Why do governments bother to spy at all?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All’s Fair in Bromance and War
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's snub of Vladimir Putin is only the latest in a rich tradition of Pyongyang's prevarications.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 40 Years After the Fall of Saigon, Every Country Has Its Own ‘Vietnam’
The USSR’s long, costly, and ultimately unsuccessful campaign through the 1980s to prop up the communist government in Kabul against a mujahideen coalition has spurred probably the best-known uses of the metaphor. But for better or worse, scores of other conflicts also have been cast as “Vietnams.”