The Latest Breaking News from Cold War

Talk of new atomic tests by Trump and Putin should make UK rethink its role as a nuclear silo for the US

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said that Russia may could carry out nuclear weapons tests for the first time since the cold war.

The Conversation · Nov 6, 2025

Soviet soldiers and chunks of the Wall: NFL's first visit to Berlin came as the Cold War ended

The LA Rams and Kansas City Chiefs’ game in Berlin in the shadow of the Cold War remains one of the strangest and most significant preseason games in league history

The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2025

Cold War bunker near Bristol to be auctioned for £20,000

The underground bunker was built in 1960 for the Royal Observer Corps, a group of volunteers set up to monitor nuclear attacks

Evening Standard · Nov 4, 2025

A Nostalgic Read for Foreign Policy Elites

Michael McFaul's new book feels like it was written in 2015, not 2025.

Reason · Oct 28, 2025

Did Aliens Watch Our Nuclear Tests? Scientist Links 100,000 UFOs to Atomic Blasts in Chilling Report

A Swedish astrophysicist's study of vanishing stars has been miscast online as proof of alien monitoring of nuclear tests — but scientists say that's fiction, not fact.

International Business Times UK · Oct 27, 2025

UFOs! Mick Jagger! Cold War paranoia! The bizarre origins of one of the biggest hits of the 1980s

The smash hit song reflected both the decade's geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism

MusicRadar · Oct 23, 2025

From the cold war to today, why espionage cases are so difficult to prosecute

The collapse of the prosecutions of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry is a reminder that bringing charges for espionage can be an extremely risky business, particularly in western democracies. Cash and Berry were accused of spying for China, but the CPS dropped the case before it could go to trial.…

The Conversation · Oct 20, 2025

‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks, on 19 October 1945, George Orwell published an essay in the London Tribune, entitled “You and the Atom Bomb”. In it, he surmised what if “the great nations make…

The Conversation · Oct 20, 2025

Microchip factory in Netherlands caught in tussle between Europe, China and US

Dutch authorities have, for the first time ever, invoked Cold War-era legislation to take control of a Chinese-owned microchip factory – prompting backlash from China. The move underlines the intensifying competition between the United States, China and Europe for global leadership in semiconductor technology.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 17, 2025

“That song wanted to be written! You don’t plan something like that”: Nena speaks to us about the making of her era-defining classic 99 Red Balloons

We catch up with Nena on a song that reflected both the 1980s’ geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism - and took some inspiration from Mick Jagger

MusicRadar · Oct 17, 2025