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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Deseret News archives: Soviet Union traded a pilot for a spy on this day in 1962
On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured ...
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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Congo-Brazzaville: Soundtrack to a Coup d'État - Neocolonialism and Resistance
Interview - Director Johan Grimonprez discusses Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, his powerful exploration of Congo's decolonization struggle, in conversation with Peter Mertens, Belgian political leader ...
The Times of Israel14d
Autonomous Armageddon: The Global Risks of a Superpowered AI
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, President Nikita Khrushchev wrote a letter ... concern over the risks of nuclear war and the arms race during the Cold War. At the time, these conferences ...
Foreign Affairs15d
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 ...