New cold war
The cold war (1947-1991), a chilling 44-year standoff, witnessed a terrifying triumvirate of lethal weapons: ICBMs (Soviet R-7 Semyorka and American Minuteman missiles), nuclear submarines (USS George Washington, SSBN-598, and…
How to navigate a new cold war
The US-China competition, also referred to as US-China rivalry, carries multiple implications in its wake for the world. Meanwhile, Pakistan-China cooperation is embedded in decades of mutual trust. Post 9/11,…
Back to the cold war?
Does the tiff between the United States and China prefigure a return to the politics of the cold war era (1945-89), which divided the world into two hostile blocs for…
Not your dad’s cold war
A world order descended upon us after WW2. This order was called the cold war. The world was neatly divided in two by an iron curtain. Our dictators found themselves…
Gorbachev and Reagan: a friendship that ended the Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause in 1990 — a bit of unaccustomed political showmanship worthy of his friend Ronald Reagan.…
Inside Germany’s secret Cold War cash bunker
For many years, the residents of the leafy town of Cochem in the German Rhineland went about their daily business with no idea they were living on a gold mine.…
Swiss Cold War bunkers back in vogue as Ukraine conflict rages
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reawakened interest in Switzerland’s concrete nuclear fallout shelters, built during the Cold War with enough space to shelter everyone in the country. Since the 1960s,…
A new cold war
Political analysts and world watchers viewed the burgeoning rivalry between the US and China as the possible beginning of yet another cold war era. That process seems to have been…
Echoes of the Cold War
AS sabre-rattling continues in the crisis over Ukraine, shifting geopolitics have pushed Russia and China into closer alignment while exposing differences within the Western coalition on how to respond. It has further…
How hot could US-China ‘Cold War’ get?
Tensions are mounting by the day between the United States and China, leading to talk of a new Cold War. Experts see important historical differences — but believe the two…
