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What's a cold war? A historian explains how rivals US and Soviet Union competed off the battlefield

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Russian threats revive old nuclear fears in central Europe

Fighting around Ukraine’s nuclear power installations and Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons have reawakened nuclear fears in Europe

The Independent UK

Cold War nuclear bunker on sale for £25k with gas masks included in case of Russia attack

The Royal Observer Corps monitoring post in Louth, Lincolnshire was bought on eBay on a whim nearly 20 years ago, and can only be accessed down a 14-foot shaft

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Propaganda: A New Musical review – love and betrayal at the birth of the cold war

Effervescent jazz and operatic lyricism tease out the characters in Conor Mitchell’s ambitious production which grows thrillingly in impact – and in contemporary resonance

The Guardian - UK

They perfected the "art of polarization"

Historian Nicole Hemmer talks to Salon about how Rush, Newt, Buchanan and an obsession with Clinton remade the GOP

Salon

Liz Truss playing 'cruel games' with Britain’s nuclear test veterans

The Prime Minister is being urged to announce a medal for heroes of the Cold War

Daily Mirror

60 years after the Cuban missile crisis, Russia's threats reignite Cold War fears

Over 13 days beginning on Oct. 16, 1962, the U.S. and Soviet Union were at the brink of a nuclear conflict. But since the Cold War ended, some historical assumptions about the crisis have changed.

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Explainer-What are 'tactical' nuclear weapons?

From the war in Ukraine to North Korea's recent missile testing spree, tactical nuclear weapons are being debated and developed in a way not seen since the Cold War.

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What are nuclear tactical weapons, will they be used in Ukraine?

Tactical nuclear weapons are often characterised by their size, range, or use for limited military targets.

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Explainer-What makes a nuclear weapon 'tactical'?

From the war in Ukraine to North Korea's recent missile testing spree, tactical nuclear weapons are being debated and developed in a way not seen since the Cold War.

Reuters

New Cold War papers show just how far Britain has come on LGBT issues

Today MI5 is releasing a massive number of its historical files into the National Archives at Kew. Among them are papers telling for the first time the inside story of its investigation of John Vassall — the notorious KGB spy in the Admiralty until his arrest in 1962.

Evening Standard

Biden says the US doesn't want a new Cold War – but there are some reasons it might

“We do not seek a Cold War,” declared President Joe Biden in front of world leaders gathered at the United Nations on Sept. 21, 2022. He continued that America was not asking “any nation to choose between the United States or any other partner.”

The Conversation

65 years ago, “simple satellite” Sputnik redefined space science — and sent a sinister message

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed into a race to dominate not only Earth but also space.

Inverse

Truss caves to Mirror’s demands to mark ‘Plutonium Jubilee’ with cash for nuclear test vets

The heroes of Britain’s Cold War radiation experiments and their families welcomed the news, but said it did not go far enough to address the tests’ legacy of cancers, early death and birth defects

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Mystery of hidden and abandoned cold-war ear nuclear in British countryside

Once used as a bunker, then a war room and a HQ for representatives, this Cambridgeshire Bunker has a fascinating connection and place in the history of the Cold War

Daily Mirror

MPs warn Liz Truss over 'betraying' heroes of nuclear tests in 1950s and 1960s

Tory and Labour backbenchers say the PM is reneging on promises to veterans of Cold War radiation experiments

The Hindu

Mahatma Gandhi, the peacemaker

Gandhi considered the problem of peace as an ethical, rather than political, issue

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: the secret British plan to keep Italy’s communists from power

Newly declassified files expose the Foreign Office’s dirty tricks campaign to influence the knife-edge 1976 election result

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JFK derails Doctor Who, plus the drama that was too terrifying to show: 100 years of the BBC, part five

The Pythons fly, Doctor Who stumbles, Match of the Day shows a game of one half, The War Game is pulled – and was Dad’s Army a metaphor for military impotence during the cold war?

The Hindu

Globe-changing reverberations of the Ukraine war

The vision of a multi-polar world could fade away soon with rivalries in a new Cold War becoming sharper and the gulf in mutual understanding widening

The Conversation

What are tactical nuclear weapons? An international security expert explains and assesses what they mean for the war in Ukraine

Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, has threatened that Russia will “make use of all weapon systems available to us” if Russia’s territorial integrity is threatened. Putin has characterized the war in Ukraine as an existential…

The Independent UK

Plane that formed part of UK’s Cold War nuclear deterrent goes on display

The Handley Page Victor is the only surviving aircraft of its type and took five years to restore.

Daily Mirror

Truss can reclaim credibility if she ends the nuclear test veterans scandal, says Labour MP

Rebecca Long-Bailey says Cold War heroes shouldn't have to wait for the next Labour government to fix it

The Guardian - UK

How to start your own podcast

Don’t worry about the equipment … the most important thing is the idea

The Independent UK

Britain’s defence spending to double to £100bn next year, says Ben Wallace

The British armed fores are ‘actually going to grow’ for the first time since the Cold War, defence secretary says

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