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Silent operations to nuclear balance: The secret spy networks that quietly shaped the Cold War

The Cold War was shaped not just by leaders and weapons, but by vast intelligence networks that gathered and shared crucial information. From spies and defectors to surveillance technology and allied cooperation, these systems reduced uncertainty, influenced key decisions and helped prevent nuclear escalation, quietly steering the conflict through knowledge…

The Times of India

How war in Gulf reveals the ‘cut corners’ on British defence

With the army’s size halved since the cold war, UK ambitions to be globally deployable do not match the reality, experts say

The Guardian - UK

Is it time for the UK to acknowledge the ‘rhetoric to reality gap’ on its military power?

Forces have been stripped back since the cold war but political stasis is dangerous in the face of growing global threats

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The wars the UK has fought alongside the US – and when Britain has refused

IN FOCUS: Harry Cockburn reports on how 80 years of the 'special relationship' have informed international conflict, after Donald Trump lashed out at the British prime minister

The Independent UK

‘Doomsday president’: Who is Donald Trump's 'designated survivor' Mike Thompson, kept away from State of the Union?

During President Trump's State of the Union, Congressman Mike Thompson served as the designated survivor, a security measure ensuring government continuity. This role, though less dramatic than fiction suggests, requires constitutional eligibility and focuses the mind on potential catastrophic events. The practice, originating during the Cold War, ensures a successor…

The Times of India

Stasi secret files: How James Bond was spied on by East Germany

Stasi files show that 007 violated the GDR border four times at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin. The whole thing happened during filming for 'Octopussy.' A dangerous scandal in the middle of the Cold War, observed and documented by the Stasi.

Euronews

UK to deploy more troops to Norway in response to Putin’s Arctic threat

Defence Secretary John Healey said: ‘Russia poses the greatest threat to Arctic and High North security that we have seen since the Cold War.’

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France launches Orion 26, its biggest military drill since the Cold War

Orion 26 mobilises 12,500 troops, 25 ships and 140 aircraft as France and 24 allies rehearse high‑intensity warfare in Europe amid growing Russian threats.

Euronews

Why the end of the New START treaty doesn’t necessarily mean another nuclear arms race

Experts say smaller guardrails around arms control are still in place

The Independent UK

In Emilia Clarke's New Spy Thriller 'Ponies', "Tangible" 1970s Interiors Are Your Cue to Solve the Mystery, Says Its Production Designer

The plot twists and relationships in the Cold War-era series are "teased by the use of palette, materiality, and iconography," Sara K White reveals to us

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American farmers, who once fed the world, face a volatile global market with diminishing federal backing

President Donald Trump appears to have upended an 85-year relationship between American farmers and the United States’ global exercise of power. But that link has been fraying since the end of the Cold War, and Trump’s moves are just another big step.

The Conversation

This Week in History: Siege in Seattle, courtroom dramas, and the end of the Cold War

From power struggles to global crises, explore how major events between 1 and 7 December were captured on The Independent’s front pages

The Independent UK

The new code war: Cold War paranoia meets cyber conflict

How the paranoia of the Cold War has evolved into a new digital conflict, and why the key to resilience lies in understanding exposure.

TechRadar

Friday essay: how ASIO spied on Australia’s Greek migrants during the Cold War

At the height of the Cold War, the activities of Greek migrants who had arrived in Australia after the second world war saw the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) take notice.

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Japan government report expresses alarm at ‘new world order’ of these three ally nations

Japan warns of emerging security environment in ways not seen since the Cold War

The Conversation

An east-west divide deeper than the cold war: what I saw on my summer trip to Russia

I went to Moscow this summer on a trip that was as awkward as it was illuminating. I left feeling Russia is not just a changed country, but a separate civilisation.

International Business Times UK

Juan Ponce Enrile Is Dead: 101-Year-Old Politician in PH, Who Served During the Cold War Peacefully Passed Away

Juan Ponce Enrile dies peacefully at 101, leaving a legacy marked by Cold War leadership, martial law, the People Power Revolution, and decades in public office.

Reason

No Excuses for Zohran Mamdani and Radical Socialism

The new mayor's buddy, Hasan Piker, wishes the Soviet Union had won the Cold War.

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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 Independent UK

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

Latin Times

U.S. Upgrading Abandoned Cold War Naval Base In The Caribbean That Could Support Operations In Venezuela: Report

The U.S. is upgrading an abandoned naval base from the Cold War, according to a new report, which could support operations against the Venezuelan regime.

The Conversation

Trump’s squeeze of Venezuela goes beyond ‘Monroe doctrine’ – in ideology, intent and scale, it’s unprecedented

A massive military buildup in the Caribbean has sparked speculation that the U.S. is now engaged in its latest chapter of direct intervention in Latin America.

The Independent UK

The Nuclear Club: The 9 countries armed with nukes as US set to resume weapons testing

IN FOCUS: There has been renewed focus on nuclear arsenals after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, James C Reynolds and Maryam Zakir-Hussain report

The Conversation

Netflix’s A House of Dynamite sounds the nuclear alarm, but how worried should we be?

As a teenager in the 1980s, I was shown a BBC drama in school called Threads that depicted the impact of a nuclear strike on a city in northern England. Threads is a brutal vision of a terrifying reality that I imagine haunted many people in the years before the…

The Conversation

‘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…

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