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Why bizarre Cold War hoverboats are making a comeback
Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.
Xi Has Spent Decades Preparing for a Cold War With the U.S.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...
How a Top-Secret Debate Shaped Eisenhower's Cold War Policy
Former high school debater Sarath K. Ganji explains how Project Solarium demonstrates the real-world use cases of policy ...
Land Mines, a Cold War Horror, Could Return to Fortify Europe’s Borders
Five countries plan to revive the use of a weapon prohibited by treaty for more than a quarter of a century, hoping to ...
The One Place Where Nuclear War Isn’t Abstract
Japan is the one place in the world that has felt, and personally mourned, the staggering damage of nuclear warfare. The ...
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Cold War relic reborn? Leaked images suggest China is developing the Soviet Ekranoplan
Technically called a wing-in-ground effect vehicle, the craft was spotted along the Bohai Sea, a northern extension of the ...
Cancelled Cold war-era football tie finally completed after 65 years
A European football tie cancelled due to Cold War-era tensions was finally completed in Northern Ireland on Saturday, 65 ...
HistoryExtra5d
The CIA’s most unlikely Cold War weapon? A secret smuggling operation that terrified Soviet censors
In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...
North Korea’s Growing Role In Ukraine War Shows How Weak Russia Is
It was reported last week that North Korea plans to triple the number of troops fighting with Russia along the front lines in ...
Cold War spycraft to infamous Enigma machine: Inside an espionage expert's spy collection
From World War II's enigma machine, to a Stasi camera concealed in a flower box and even original letters from the James Bond ...
Wall Street Journal6d
Xi Has Spent Decades Preparing for a Cold War With the U.S.
In the U.S.-China conflict, President Trump is waging an economic assault. But Chinese leader Xi Jinping is fighting a Cold War. Xi is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy he has ...