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Cold War

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953
Cold War

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

A mushroom cloud rises into the sky above Enewetak Atoll
Cold War

The mystery of the missing H-bomb paper

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Why the Ukraine conflict isn’t a new Cold War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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President Bill Clinton laughs at Boris Yeltsin's joke during a joint news conference in Hyde Park, New York, October 1995
20th Century

“We missed a precious window”: why did America and Russia squander an opportunity for peace in the 1990s?

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and French President Jacques Chirac at the NATO Summit in May 1997
20th Century

Nato, Russia, and the history of the post-WW2 tensions

Photo of fence and barbed wire
Cold War

Q&A What does Iron Curtain mean, and who popularised the term?

Two boys uncover a cache of food during Ukraine’s Holodomor famine, c1934
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“Russia has always refused to let Ukraine go”: Keith Lowe on the long roots of today’s crisis

US president Richard Nixon (centre) and secretary of state William Rogers (right) at the Great Wall of China during their groundbreaking visit in February 1972. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
Cold War

Nixon in China: a week that changed the world

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Cold War

Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War

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America’s Cold War culture boom

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Cold War

Cold war mind games

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The final instalment in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1950–1999. (Image by Getty Images)
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Turning points 1956: The shock of Suez . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German born British physicist and spy,  Dr Klaus Fuchs (1911 - 1988) who was tried at the Old Bailey, London on two charges of disclosing atom secrets 'calculated to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy'.   (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Cold War

Klaus Fuchs: the scientist who became the Soviet super spy

Michael Goodman tackles listener questions and popular search queries on the history of spying and intelligence. (Image by Getty Images)
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Espionage history: everything you wanted to know

Susan Williams discusses the United States’ covert programme to undermine the leaders of newly independent African nations in the 1950s and 1960s. (Image by Getty Images)
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The CIA’s secret African missions

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