Oleg Gordievsky, a key double agent in the Cold War, dies at 86
For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...
Cold War redux in more ways than one: Russia and the U.S. look to thaw relations in the hockey rink
Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to ...
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Putin wants US ‘recognition’ of Russian gains in Ukraine: Historian
Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.
Top KGB defector and Cold War spy found dead at home aged 86
Top KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky has died at the age of 86. Code-named Hetman, Mr Gordievsky was one of the most important ...
A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.
Chilling warning that threat of Russian missile attack on UK 'most stark since Cold War'
A bombshell new report from a UK-based thinktank has warned the country is barely able to protect its own military sites from ...
KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky who helped change course of Cold War dies aged 86
In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.
"We live in the reality of a second Cold War"
He advises governments and teaches at the elite Stanford University. Historian Niall Ferguson explains why he believes Donald ...
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Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside KGB, dies at 86
Gordievsky passed away on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police confirmed Saturday that his death is not being treated as suspicious ...
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U.S. military has cared about climate change since dawn of Cold War -- for good reason
In the late 1940s, Arctic temperatures were warming and the Cold War was heating up. The U.S. military had grown increasingly ...
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A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
formed part of a top-secret attempt by the US to hide launch sites for missiles in the Arctic, which the military viewed as a strategic location closer to Russia. While the camp’s Cold War ...