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The first black arts festival was shaped by Cold War politics
The 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts was the first state-sponsored showcase of the work of black artists, musicians and poets. By David Murphy.
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How a Czech 'super-spy' infiltrated the CIA
On a cold February night in 1986, Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge became the scene of the cold war’s last ever prisoner exchange – a dramatic hand-over involving a Soviet dissident and Karel Koecher, the only foreign agent ever known to have infiltrated the CIA. Koecher was a Czech citizen who had been living undercover in the US for 21 years. Alternately codenamed Rino, Turian or Pedro, he had moved to America in 1965 to establish himself as a mole within the CIA. Koecher’s KGB case officer, Colonel Alexander Sokolov, would later call him a super-spy.
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‘The graveyard of the Earth’: inside City 40, Russia’s deadly nuclear secret
Ozersk, codenamed City 40, was the birthplace of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme. Now it is one of the most contaminated places on the planet – so why do so many residents still view it as a fenced-in paradise? By Samira Goetschel.
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In pictures: Relics of the Soviet era
An exhibition examining the landscape and abandoned spaces of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries opens in London.
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The 1990 U.S. Pledge to the Soviet Union on NATO Expansion
I speak with Joshua Itzkowitz Shifrinson, an assistant professor at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service and author of “Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion,” published in the current edition of International Security. By Micah Zenko.
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Despite Objections, Pentagon Takes Step Toward Buying New Nuclear Weapons
The U.S. Air Force has asked defense firms to bid to supply new ICBMs and controversial nuclear cruise missiles. By Marcus Weisgerber.
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The hidden base that could have ended the world
In the 1970s and 80s, crews sat at constant readiness in nuclear missile silos buried in the Arizona desert. What would have happened if they had got the order to launch? By Richard Hollingham.
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Tim Kaine’s Unlikely Biography
Tim Kaine isn’t shy about trading on his year in Honduras as a Catholic missionary. Accepting the V.P. nomination, he said, “My faith is my North Star for orienting my life...” By Daniel Hopsicker.
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Hiroshima: the Crime That Keeps on Paying, But Beware the Reckoning
On his visit to Hiroshima last May, Obama did not, as some had vainly hoped he might, apologize for the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing of the city. Instead he gave a high-sounding speech... By Diana Johnstone.
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A Radioactive Cold War Military Base Will Soon Emerge From Greenland’s Melting Ice
They thought the frozen earth would keep it safely hidden. They were wrong. By Ben Panko.
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America at the Atomic Crossroads
Seventy years ago, at Bikini Atoll, weapons of mass destruction became a form of consumer entertainment. By Alex Wellerstein. (July 25, 2016)
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Atomic Light
What is most astonishing about this genuine relic of Soviet science that Ortiz Monasterio has brought to light in his photographs is the precarious nature of the installations, the austere conditions in which the scientists worked and lived. By José Manuel Prieto, photographs by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.
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Russia 'Considering Military Bases in Cuba and Vietnam'
Russia's deputy defence minister reveals country is 'reconsidering' the closure of bases in Vietnam and Cuba.
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Was modern art a weapon of the CIA?
The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world. But were they pawns of US spies in the Cold War? By Alastair Sooke.
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Mangoes, K-Pop and KFC: Chinese Nationalism today
“What would Chairman Mao, who died (or, in Communist Party parlance, ‘went to meet Marx’) forty years ago, think of Seoul-based bands being blocked from appearing on Chinese television and touring the mainland because of a South Korean missile programme?” By Richard Curt Kraus and Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
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American Military Intervention Can't Save Syria
"The Syrian people have endured horrors and face challenges beyond comprehension. Yet these tragic realities do not warrant intervention by the United States." By Rajan Menon.
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US Army keeping wary eye on Russia
Pentagon leaders warn that Russia is making alarming military advancements. By Kristina Wong.
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The pyramid at the end of the world
In rural North Dakota, the long shadow cast by nuclear weapons and the Cold War is not as far in the past as we might like to think. By Elmo Keep.
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Taking a Page from Joe McCarthy
Hillary Clinton and her supporters have turned to ugly McCarthyism in attacking Donald Trump to divert attention from their email scandals, a dangerous use of Russia-bashing, says Robert Parry.
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The Immigrants from Hell
Robert Huddleston reviews "German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era," by Monique Laney.
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