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This Jet Terrified the West: The MiG-25 Foxbat

A New Interceptor In the late 1950s, Soviet intelligence learned that the Americans were developing a new state-of the art[…]

Cold War What really was the Cold War? Did WWII ever really end? We will look at Elliot Roosevelt’s insights[…]

Conclusions The United States proves the stronger and the Soviet Union implodes. The balance of terror that has kept the[…]

The Wall Comes Down The dominoes fall: incredibly quickly, the Soviet bloc is breaking up, virtually without bloodshed.

Star Wars Ronald Reagan pledges to defeat the “evil empire,” but abhors the idea of nuclear war. He is prepared[…]

Spies Even before the end of World War II, spies prepare for post-war world order. Beginning in 1944, KGB spies[…]

Soldiers of God Afghanistan is a brutal war that costs the lives of almost 15,000 Soviet conscripts and an estimated[…]

Freeze As the United States absorbs the hike in OPEC oil prices and concerns for human rights in the East[…]

Good Guys, Bad Guys Across the world, the two superpowers back surrogates engaging in ideological and, sometimes, physical conflict. In[…]

Detente The North Vietnamese overwhelm U.S.-backed forces in the South and the United States steps up its bombing campaign. Nixon[…]