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07/15/11 Christian Carion's film dramatizes a little-known saga of Cold War espionage. Christian Carion's film dramatizes a little-known saga of Cold War espionage.
07/12/11 At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, some political scientists predicted that the Soviet Union and the United States would eventually come to resemble each other. The role of the state in capitalism was expanding, while communism seemed to be mellowing and liberalizing.
07/11/11 Cold War Kids have announced fall tour dates for the second leg of their North American headlining tour
07/09/11 The way some preservationists saw it, the Lakefront Airport terminal building, one of the finest examples of Depression-era art deco design in New Orleans, should have been put on the critical list in the mid-1960s after Cold War paranoia prompted the state to convert it into a cement-encased fallout shelter.
07/04/11 From pirates and rappers to the federal debt and the Cold War, Sedgwick County commissioners delve into varied topics at the end of their televised meetings.
07/01/11 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy completed the cleanup of Cold War legacy waste at the Nuclear Radiation Development, LLC (NRD) site near Grand Island, New York, and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. The two locations became the 18th and 19th sites to be completely cleaned of legacy waste.
07/01/11 MIAMI (Reuters) - When the United States embarked on its shuttle program decades ago, it set out to build a workhorse vehicle that would make space travel routine and beat the Soviets during the Cold War struggle for dominance in space.
06/28/11 In Washington it's an uphill struggle to change perceptions of Russia, as many American congressmen remain ignorant of the economic, technological and infrastructural development that their former Cold War opponent has gone through over the last two decades.
06/27/11 It's been a long time since Liverpool were crowned champions of England. May 5th 1990 was the last day of the Reds' last Premier League celebration. Time and Warner had just merged, the Cold War was finally winding down and concepts like social media and "tweeting" hadn't even been conceived yet. Heck, Leeds United and Blackburn Rovers have captured the top division since Liverpool last ...
06/22/11 LUCKEY -- One of Ohio's most notorious Cold War relics is a 40-acre site about 22 miles southeast of Toledo, where Congress may spend as much as $600 million cleaning up beryllium, lead, and radioactive waste in three to five years -- a long-awaited project within the community.
06/22/11 At the height of the Cold War, the Paris and Farnborough Air Shows could usually be relied on to produce new military products every year.
06/19/11 Yelena Bonner, a constant beacon of freedom in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, an advocate for democracy in Russia in the past decade, and the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winning Andrei Sakharov, died last night at her home in Brookline, according to Radio Liberty, a Russian radio station. She was 88.
06/17/11 "The most successful alliance in history," it was called at the end of the Cold War in which NATO, for 40 years, deterred the Red Army from overrunning Berlin or crashing through West Germany to the Channel.
06/13/11 By Heidi Singer How did the Cold War play out in Mexico, with its fascinating mix of politics, religion, and Hollywood? For a Columbia University...
06/06/11 Though perfectly suited to the Cold War, the conservative coalition is an uneasy fit for the War on Terror
06/06/11 The latest documentary on sports focuses in on Bobby Fischer's 1972 match against Boris Spassky in Iceland that gave such prominence to the ancient board game. "Bobby Fischer Against the World" (HBO, 9 p.m.) chronicles the swift rise of the player, becoming the youngest grandmaster in history at just 14, who became a pawn in a Cold War show to play against the leading Russian player. It's ...
06/03/11 The charming young US president and the coarse Soviet leader, finally face to face: the Vienna Summit between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev kicked off a whole new Cold War game on June 3-4, 1961.
06/03/11 For the fourth X-Men outing, director Matthew Vaughn and the Marvel machine relaunch the series with style, with a Cold War-era high-wire act that's nimbler and cleaner than any origin story has a right to be. (Recommended)
06/02/11 An "Operation Alert" Civil Defense simulated nuclear blast estimated widespread death and destruction in the Lehigh Valley area in 1961 during the Cold War.
06/02/11 Liz Garbus' new documentary brings the tension of the Cold War to life and explains why Bobby Fischer's chess matches captured public attention.
05/31/11 MAYFIELD - When Samantha Phillips was growing up in England during the 1980s, Cold War tensions limited travel to many eastern European countries. | 
