Posts Tagged ‘cold war’

Europe’s reluctant saviours

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

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

This will make you feel old

29 years ago, world and Welsh history nearly took a sharp right turn

’81:41

’81:41

What would have happened if Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin had succeeded?

Who’s afraid of the big, bad nuke?

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

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