“The Iron Curtain” (1948) had been released before, and the decade that followed featured dozens of major movies with explicit Cold War plots — “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951 ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But communicating across the Iron Curtain could be just as hard as sending ...

Throughout most of the post-war ... Iron Curtain. “They stuck to the class-conscious Burns,” says Malgrati. Marshak would become the honorary president of the Burns World Federation. During ...

Even though it would be as costly for Putin to end the special operation as to keep it going, there is a way out: he can continue permanent war against the West—by cold means rather than hot. The main ...

The CWSP is located in the LSE Department of International History, the home of some of the leading scholars of the Cold War in Europe. The CWSP focuses on the history of the Cold War, which uses ...

For decades, the defining conflict in the region was a “cold war” between Iran and the Gulf Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia. This struggle, steeped in sectarian and strategic divides ...

The construction, estimated to cost EUR 2.3 billion (USD 2,36 billion), is prompted by the changed geopolitical situation due to the war in Ukraine ... with a new ‘Iron Curtain’ in Europe.

But communicating across the Iron Curtain could be just as hard as sending messages beyond the solar system.

contend in Foreign Affairs that “Putin is now more committed than ever to the war with Ukraine,” adding that “Putin’s ultimate objectives are to relitigate the post–Cold War order in ...

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