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Cold War stories: 47 news summaries

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OLD RELEASES

 The Best of 
 Cold War Cinema 

With the Evil Empire as the bad guy, Hollywood made some great flicks

Nov 9, 09 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Maybe the reason Betsy Sharkey is feeling nostalgic about Cold War flicks is that the era offered a clear, if flawed, idea that we were the good guys. Regardless, it made for some good movies. The Los Angeles Times critic's faves, by "capricious category":
  • Aliens: With "subtexts
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entertainment • Hollywood • film • Soviet Union • Cold War • Matt Damon • James Bond • The Day the Earth Stood Still • Sean Penn • spies • Alfred Hitchcock • movies • Paul Newman • paranoia • Robert Ludlum • Evil Empire • Jason Bourne • Henry Fonda • Fail-Safe • Dr. Strangelove • The Falcon and the Snowman • Torn Curtain • Brother From Another Planet

OPINION

 'Tear Down This Wall' 
 Not So Confrontational 

Reagan 'defeated' Soviets with diplomacy, not bravado

Nov 6, 09 12:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Prepare to see a lot of clips in the coming days of Ronald Reagan declaring, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” The 20th anniversary of the Berlin wall’s fall is days away, and in our collective memory, Reagan brought it down with sheer bravado. But that’s... More »

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Soviet Union • Mikhail Gorbachev • Ronald Reagan • Cold War • history • Brandenburg Gate

(Newser) - Skipping the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall is a bad choice by President Obama, Rick Richman writes, for several reasons:
  • It’s a snub of a personal invitation from German Chancellor Angela Merkel—a key ally and one going all out for the festivities.
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Angela Merkel • Germany • US foreign policy • Cold War • Berlin Wall • President Obama

Stone Takes on 'Secret History of America'

Director will look at
'under-reported' events in Showtime series

Aug 19, 09 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Oliver Stone is nothing if not ambitious. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the director is prepping a 10-part documentary series entitled Secret History of America, which promises to examine important but under-reported events from the past 60 years. Stone, who will provide the narration himself, calls the Showtime project “... More »

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entertainment • cable TV • Showtime • Cold War • Vietnam War • Oliver Stone • JFK assassination • conspiracy theory • American history

(Newser) - After many years of indifference, Berliners have started getting serious about saving what's left of the most famous symbol of the Cold War, Der Spiegel reports. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, locals viewed it as merely an unfortunate reminder of  a bad past and little thought was given... More »

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Germany • Berlin • Cold War • East Germany • Berlin Wall • West Germany • reunification

 Berlin Pols Target 
 'Disneyland' Soldiers 

They're turning serious monument into 'Disneyland:' officials

Apr 15, 09 4:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - German politicians want the fake Cold War soldiers who pose near Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate gone, because they’re turning a somber symbol of the nation’s unification into “Disneyland,” Der Spiegel reports. The performers don American, East German, and Soviet military gear and snap photos with tourists... More »

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Germany • tourism • Berlin • Cold War • East Germany • Brandenburg Gate

ANALYSIS

60 Years On,
NATO Faces
Identity Crisis

Alliance struggles for meaning after end of Cold War

Apr 3, 09 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is in Strasbourg for a NATO summit, but on the 60th anniversary of the alliance's founding, its future seems increasingly muddy. Founded on a mutual defense pact against the Soviet Union and its satellite states, NATO now stretches as far as Turkey and provides most of the peacekeeping... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • NATO • Kosovo • Cold War • NATO summit

 Obama, Medvedev Agree 
 to New Nuclear Arms Talks 

President will visit Moscow in July

Apr 1, 09 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev pledged to "move beyond Cold War mentalities" at their first ever meeting, at the American ambassador's residence in London. The two presidents agreed to negotiate a new weapons treaty that would see both countries reduce their nuclear stockpiles—the first such... More »

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nuclear proliferation • Russia • Barack Obama • diplomacy • nuclear weapons • Cold War • WMD • Dmitry Medvedev • nuclear arsenal

OPINION

Crash Reminds Us of Dangers of Nuke-Armed Subs

Cold War is over, but dangerous machines still stalk the oceans

Feb 26, 09 4:59 PM CST
(Newser) - The Cold War is over, and the threats of terrorism and economic collapse have made it easy to forget about the possibility of sudden, total annihilation by nuclear weapons. Until, that is, last week’s collision between French and British nuclear submarines, Clemens Höges writes for Der Spiegel. It's... More »

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nuclear weapons • ocean • nuclear reactor • crash • missile • Cold War • submarine

 Fan Fidel 
 Hails 
 'Sincere' 
 Obama 

Castro was glued to inauguration coverage

Jan 22, 09 6:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Cuba's ailing former dictator Fidel Castro has spoken warmly about President Barack Obama, and his brother Raul is hinting about a face-to-face meeting, reports Australia's Age. Fidel, 82, spent Tuesday watching TV coverage of the inauguration and spoke glowingly about America's new president as "absolutely sincere" to Argentine President... More »

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Fidel Castro • Cuba • Cold War • Raul Castro • Cristina Kirchner • President Obama • Inauguration Day

 For Sale: Soviet Sub, 
 Very Rusty 

Cold War relic once used in Harrison Ford film is too costly to restore, RI museum says

Dec 25, 08 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The former Soviet submarine used in Harrison Ford’s film K-19: The Widowmaker may be sunk for good. The cruise-missile sub, which served as a floating museum in a Rhode Island river until it foundered in a 2007 storm, will be sold for scrap if no one buys it by... More »

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museums • Cold War • submarine • restoration • Rhode Island • artifacts • relics • Harrison Ford • former Soviet state

OPINION

 Hey NATO, 
 Lay Off Russia: Qadaffi 

West should stop meddling with nuclear giant: Qaddafi

Dec 23, 08 4:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama would be wise to harken back to the no-meddling Monroe Doctrine and stop the West’s “addiction to interfering in the affairs of other countries,” Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi writes in the Washington Times. He blames NATO expansion to Russia’s border for moving the nuclear... More »

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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • nuclear • Cold War • Moammar Gadhafi

Are Cold War's Lost Nukes Still Ticking?

Dozens of weapons lost in accidents decades ago are still out there and still deadly

Nov 15, 08 7:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Dozens of American A-bombs lost in Cold War accidents are corroding around the world, Der Spiegel reports. The US admits to misplacing 11, but German nuclear expert Otfried Nassauer says up to 50 went down, mostly in plane crashes. Bombers either collided with tanker planes or, short on fuel, plunged... More »

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nuclear weapons • US military • Cold War • atomic bomb • radiation • warheads

Czech Author Slams Claim He Aided Reds

Kundera denies turning in secret agent to Communists

Oct 13, 08 6:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Czech author Milan Kundera emerged from media isolation today to denounce a story that he betrayed a Cold War agent to the Communists, the Guardian reports. A historian says that in 1950, Kundera ratted on a Czech deserter hired by Western intelligence; the man served 14 years of mostly hard... More »

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Czech Republic • Cold War • Communists

'That Is the
End of This Broadcast'

UK declassifies
BBC's Cold War script for nuclear attack

Oct 3, 08 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - A radio script that the British government planned to broadcast to survivors of a nuclear attack has been made public for the first time, the BBC reports. The script, written in the 1970s and released by the National Archives, warns listeners to stay in hiding for 14 days and to... More »

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BBC • nuclear weapons • Cold War • survivors • Britain • National Archives • nuclear attack

OPINION

 US Dominance Is Dead 

'Power is leaking from the US at an accelerating rate,' Guardian says

Sep 28, 08 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - After decades of a scolding countries for irresponsible behavior, Uncle Sam has finally had his comeuppance, John Gray opines in the Guardian, concluding that “The era of American global leadership is over." Unable to silence Hugo Chavez, thwart Russian aggression in Georgia, appreciate Chinese fiscal practices, and... More »

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China • United States • capitalism • Cold War • free markets • bailout • financial crisis

Russian Warships Head to Venezuela for 'Training'

Chavez says coordinated exercise is 'warning' to US

Sep 22, 08 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russian warships left this morning for coordinated training exercises with the Venezuelan navy, the AFP reports. The group, consisting of a nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser, anti-submarine ship, and supporting craft, were seen firing artillery on the open ocean in tests. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said the deployment was a “warning”... More »

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Russia • Syria • Venezuela • Vladimir Putin • Cold War • navy • military exercises

 Putin on 
 Georgia: 
 We Had 
 No Choice 

Russian PM warns against Europe 'arms race'

Sep 12, 08 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin stridently defended Russia’s invasion of Georgia yesterday, saying to do otherwise would be like his country “getting a bloody nose and hanging its head down,” the Independent reports. “They attacked South Ossetia with missiles, tanks, heavy artillery, and ground troops. What were we supposed... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • missile defense system • Cold War

 Ethel Was 
 Innocent: 
 Witness 

Co-defendant admits being spy, calls Julius' secrets 'junk'

Sep 12, 08 3:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - A co-defendant of Julius and Ethel  Rosenberg has admitted for the first time that he was a Soviet spy—and that she was innocent. Morton Sobell, 91, passed military secrets to the Communists in World War II when the nations were still allies, he told the New York Times. Sobell,... More »

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espionage • Soviet Union • Cold War • atomic bomb • Communists

OPINION

Nuke Advantage Emboldened Putin's Russia

US disarmament partly to blame for Georgia war, says Schoenfeld

Aug 21, 08 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Diplomats and pundits have debated what led Russia to attack Georgia so forcefully, pointing to everything from newfound economic strength to a sense of national humiliation. But Gabriel Schoenfeld, editor at neoconservative magazine Commentary, has another explanation: it's Russia's growing nuclear advantage, especially with short-range arms, that has "helped... More »

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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • nuclear weapons • Georgia • Cold War • nuclear disarmament • nuclear arsenal • George W. Bush • neoconservatves

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