Posts Tagged ‘cold war’
Europe’s reluctant saviours
From the ashes of the Second World War and in spite of the division of the Iron Curtain, Germany remains Europe’s leading economic power. But it marks a special anniversary of the Berlin Wall with searching questions about its future and that of the Eurozone’s
The Gipper got it
Ronald Reagan would have been 100 today. He’d have known how to respond to the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
Who’s afraid of the big, bad nuke?
Mankind’s most destructive weapon cast a deep shadow over popular fiction for nearly 50 years. Then the cold war ended, and it began to vanish from our nightmares
The rubble from which devolution was built
Home rule’s roots lie far back in history, but the fall of communism was a crucial turning point







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