In April 1950, the US federal government raided the offices of Scientific American Magazine to destroy every printed issue. “Three thousand copies already run off were burned, type was melted down, and every galley proof and script impounded.” Three years later, Fahrenheit 451 was published without knowledge of this incident. The banned magazine contained an […]
Is Riddle Resolved?: Who Dimed Out American Traitor and Super-Spy, Robert Hanssen?…
For over two decades, students of the spy wars between Russia and America have pondered one of the great remaining mysteries of the Cold War: Who finally dimed out Robert Hanssen, the FBI turncoat said to be the most destructive traitor in the annals of U.S. intelligence? Now we know, according to an posthumously published […]
The Uncertain Future of the INF Treaty…
Signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is the only Cold War-era U.S.-Soviet arms control agreement that remains in force today. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, at which point all U.S. and Soviet INF missiles had been eliminated, the […]
“Complete Chaos”: Russia Slams “Dangerous” U.S. Pullout of INF Treaty as “Blackmail”…
Russia Signals Renewed Arms Race, Says Scrapping INF Would Force it to ‘Restore Balance’…
Putin Lays Down the Law at Valdai…
Every year Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Valdai Economic Forum. And each year his talk is important. Putin isn’t one to mince words on important issues. With tensions between Russia and the West reaching Cold War levels, Valdai represented the first time we’ve heard Putin speak in a long-form discussion since Helsinki and […]
Are the Interventionists Now Leaderless? by Patrick J. Buchanan…
“McCain’s Death Leaves Void” ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began: “The death of John McCain will leave Congress without perhaps its loudest voice in support of the robust internationalism that has defined the country’s security relations since World War II.” Certainly, the passing of the senator whose life story […]
Kissinger’s ‘Secret Ploy’: Why Russia Won’t Become U.S.’ ‘Hammer’ Against China…
The alleged Trump-Kissinger plan to “box in” China with Russia’s assistance is unlikely to turn into a reality due to a number of reasons, observers say, citing the fact that the world has drastically changed since the Cold War. Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state, political scientist and geopolitical consultant has reportedly advised US […]
Laboratory Releases Hundreds of Never-Before-Seen Nuclear Test Films Taken at the Height of the Cold War…
A US laboratory has released hundreds of previously-unseen nuclear test videos in one of the biggest declassifications of Cold War footage in history. The footage, released by the Lawrence Livermore National Library (LLNL) in California, shows hundreds of high-powered explosions which took place from 1945 to 1962 at top secret testing grounds in the US. […]
DECLASSIFIED: Video Library of Atmospheric Nuclear Tests in the United States Between 1945 – 1962…
The U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. These are the declassified films of tests…