Book excerpt: "A Different Russia" by Marvin Kalb
The veteran CBS and NBC journalist writes about covering the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and ...
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‘Betrayal!’ CBS’s Cold War-Era Moscow Correspondent Issues Dire Warning For Trump Not to ‘Leave Ukraine In A Ditch’
CBS's Cold War-era Moscow reporter Marvin Kalb warned against President Donald Trump making a deal with Vladimir Putin that ...
Marvin Kalb on how a Trump-Putin summit could lead to disaster
The veteran CBS and NBC journalist discusses why he believes an agreement between Trump and Putin that betrays Ukraine could ...
How the CIA used jazz greats as cover for a 1961 coup in Africa
Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...
Why Pepsi Once Had More Submarines Than Most Countries
An unusual agreement made during the Cold War led to Pepsi receiving many submarines as a penance for selling its popular, ...
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The Limits of the Madman Theory
I am 100 percent certain that unpredictability redounded to the benefit of the United States.” The Washington Post columnist ...
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Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
“This is what you might call a cool war,” says Congressman Adam Clayton Powell ... figures of the period include U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Malcolm X, and Cuban ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
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The economic ripples of maritime disruption: Understanding the global impact of geopolitical struggles
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British Empire, with its naval might, ensured its dominance over crucial maritime ...