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It comes after the UK announced the largest sustained increase to defence spending since the Cold War.

Sweden’s prime minister says his government wants to ramp up defense spending to a target of 3.5% of the Nordic country’sgross domestic product, marking its largest military buildup since the Cold War

The ex-KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the Cold War.

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the Cold War’s most important spies

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the most important spies of the Cold War.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retake the Crimean Peninsula after Russia’s seizure exactly 11 years ago

Sympathy towards wartime Russia has deep historical roots, back to the Cold War era and earlier.

European doubts about deterrence predate the current US administration. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and its growing reliance on nuclear coercion to ward off Nato support, brought the importance of nuclear weapons to the foreground again for the first time since the cold war.

In 1957, Hollywood released “The Deadly Mantis,” a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its premise: Melting Arctic ice has released a very hungry, million-year-old megabug, and scientists and the U.S. military will have to stop it.