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Background photo shows secret deployment of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. On the right is a photo of Juanita Moody.

The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who Helped Avert a Nuclear War

America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told.
by David Wolman, Susan Seubert via Smithsonian on February 23, 2021
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The Day Nuclear War Almost Broke Out

In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.
by Elizabeth Kolbert via The New Yorker on October 5, 2020
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Critics of Bernie Sanders’s Trip to the Soviet Union Are Distorting It

Sanders was expressing broadly bipartisan enthusiasm for Soviet reform, not a love of authoritarianism.
by Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Yakov Feygin, Yana Skorobogatov via Made By History on March 2, 2020

Mask Off: The 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team Has Long Been a Symbol of Reaction

Like it or not, the “Miracle on Ice” team has long allowed itself to be used by the worst actors in our politics.
by Dave Zirin via The Nation on February 24, 2020

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

A day-by-day account of the historic summit in Yalta, seventy-five years later.
by Diana Preston via Literary Hub on February 4, 2020

How Carter's '80 SOTU Unleashed America's 'World Police'

Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.
by Edward D. Change via The American Conservative on February 4, 2020

John Wheeler’s H-bomb Blues

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.
by Alex Wellerstein via Physics Today on December 1, 2019

The End of the Golden Era of Chess

The recent passing of Pal Benko and Shelby Lyman draws the curtain on an American period that produced some of the game’s most sparkling play.
by Peter Nicholas via The Atlantic on September 5, 2019
Cover of "Cold Warriors" book.

Before Oprah’s Book Club, there was the CIA

‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.
by Ethan Davison via The Outline on August 26, 2019
Sidney Hook speaking at the opening session of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Berlin on June 26, 1950.

Is Science Political?

Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but this view of science has its own political origins.
by Michael D. Gordin via Boston Review on August 20, 2019

A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang

In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.
by Steven Hoelscher via Smithsonian on July 1, 2019
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Here Comes the D-Day Myth Again

The Allied invasion of France was an important step in the war against the Nazis. But it was by no means a turning point.
by Kevin Kennedy via HNN on June 6, 2019

Arms Sales: USA vs. Russia (1950-2017)

A closer look at the geopolitics of weapons sales through the Cold War, and beyond.
by Jeff Desjardins, Will Geary via Visual Capitalist on April 2, 2019

Banking on the Cold War

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
by Nikhil Pal Singh via Boston Review on March 14, 2019

Inside Every Foreigner

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."
by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on February 21, 2019
Korean mothers and children cover their ears as they watch a battle.

The Forgotten War

What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?
via Throughline on February 21, 2019

Foreign Interference in US Elections Dates Back Decades

2016 was not the first election in which a foreign power tried to interfere – Nazis and Soviets tried it too.
by Bradley W. Hart via The Conversation on January 22, 2019

The Vice President’s Men

In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.
by Seymour M. Hersh via London Review of Books on January 4, 2019

The Lethal Crescent

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The Nation on December 20, 2018

The Forgotten Story of the Julian Assange of the 1970s

Decades before WikiLeaks, Philip Agee’s magazine blew the cover of more than 2,000 CIA officers.
by Steven T. Usdin via Politico Magazine on November 28, 2018
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Less Than Grand Strategy

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on November 21, 2018

Science’s Freedom Fighters

Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?
by W. Patrick McCray via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 18, 2018

The Peace Movement Won the INF Treaty. We Must Fight to Preserve It.

In the 1980s, millions of antinuclear activists took to the streets, forcing Western governments to respond to our demands.
by David Cortright via The Nation on November 14, 2018

Diplomatic Back Channels Were Once Seen as a Good Thing

But they've always been risky.
by Steven T. Usdin via TIME on September 4, 2018

The U.S. Needs to Face Up to Its Long History of Election Meddling

Russian electoral interference has renewed the temptation for American leaders to do the same.
by Peter Beinart via The Atlantic on July 22, 2018

New York City, the Perfect Setting for a Fictional Cold War Strike

On Collier’s 1950 cover story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”
by Sara Blair via Literary Hub on June 13, 2018

What Happened to the “Free World”?

Pundits can't seem to define what exactly the term refers to. Turns out it was developed for a very particular historical moment.
by Peter Slezkine via The New Republic on May 22, 2018
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Iran, North Korea, Russia: How the Nuclear Threat Re-emerged

Countries are expanding their nuclear arsenals. So why is the public so complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe?
by Noah Madoff, Harvey Burrell via Retro Report on May 15, 2018

Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision

"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.
by Sophie Pinkham via The Nation on May 3, 2018

How a Soviet A-Bomb Test Led the U.S. Into Climate Science

The untold story of a failed Russian geoengineering scheme, panic in the Pentagon, and a Nixon-era effort to study global cooling.
by Sharon Weinberger via UnDark on April 20, 2018
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