Cold war | The Guardian (original) (raw)
August 2024
Prisoner swaps between Russia and west started in 1962 during cold war
Two groups of people gathered on a bridge separating West Berlin and East Germany for exchange of Russian spy and American pilot
June 2024
Berlin by rail: a cold-war adventure
I was born behind the iron curtain but I got lucky. It’s why I’m voting in these European elections
Larisa Faber
April 2024
Hella Pick obituary
Formidable foreign correspondent for the Guardian who covered major global events from the 1960s to the 90s, and commanded great respect from world leaders
March 2024
Former Stasi officer faces trial for 1974 Berlin border shooting
Martin Naumann is one of first former East German officials to be charged with murder instead of manslaughter
January 2024
Australian arts in focus
Displaced comrades: cold war rivalries, lies and spies among Sydney’s Russian émigrés
A new book reveals how two clubs on opposite sides of George Street – and the cold war – played a key role in Australia’s era of espionage
December 2023
From the Guardian archive
The Berlin Wall is opened for Christmas – archive, 1963
The Kissinger years: flawed legacy of the man behind US cold war policy
November 2023
Biden’s China summit was a reminder: the US should talk to its rivals more often
Christopher S Chivvis
Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts
August 2023
War, identity, irony: how Russian aggression put central Europe back on the map
Jacques Rupnik
A 1980s essay by Czech writer Milan Kundera on the peoples trapped between east and west is enjoying a new lease of life, says research professor Jacques Rupnik
July 2023
I was a US nuclear missile operator. I’m grateful for the Oppenheimer film
Cole Smith
The questions at the center of Oppenheimer don’t feel theoretical to me. From 2012 to 2017 I worked on nearly 300 nuclear silo alerts
June 2023
This is Europe
Why did it take a murderous war on Ukraine for Germany to wake up to the threat from Russia?
Helene von Bismarck
Intelligence service career informs former MI5 and MI6 man’s novel
May 2023
Kissinger at 100: Statesman or war criminal? His troubled legacy – in pictures
First as US national security adviser, then as secretary of state, Henry Kissinger intervened around the world during the 1970s, shaping events in China, Africa and the Middle East, with consequences that reverberate today
Kissinger at 100: How his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid
Historians say the involvement in Africa of the former US secretary of state, who is 100 this week, drew the US into Angola’s war and aided apartheid after the Soweto uprising
Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war – in pictures
From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?
‘Excessive loyalty’: how Republican giant George Shultz fell for Nixon, Reagan … and Elizabeth Holmes
April 2023
007 meets the occult: why spies and sorcerers are a perfect fit in fiction
Espionage and magic share codes, secrets and rituals and a new cohort of writers are now casting their literary spells
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