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Tag: Cuban missile crisis

Posted inOpinion

Cuban missile crisis of 60 years ago still with us today 

by Katrina vanden Heuvel October 16, 2022October 16, 2022

October 16 marks 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis – the 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union widely regarded as the closest we ever came to global nuclear war. On this anniversary, as we veer terrifyingly close to the brink of Armageddon once again, we should look to that crisis […]

Posted inRussia

Putin’s off-ramp and why he won’t likely take it

by Rod Thornton October 11, 2022October 15, 2022
Posted inAnalysis

Putin’s nuclear threats as Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0

by Tom Vaughan October 6, 2022October 11, 2022
Posted inOpinion

Shocking behavior by Putin and Biden

by Stephen Bryen September 22, 2022September 27, 2022
Posted inOpinion

Breaching the wall of difference 

by James Carden June 10, 2022June 10, 2022
Posted inRussia

Russian tests and Putin’s threats recall Cold War nuke dread

by Michael Mulvihill May 7, 2022May 11, 2022
Posted inOpinion

Why Europe needs to take a hard look at itself

by Boaventura de Sousa Santos March 15, 2022March 15, 2022
Posted inAT+

US, China moment of decision in Rome

by David P Goldman March 14, 2022March 17, 2022
Posted inEssay

The folly of Putin’s asymmetric war

by Francesco Sisci February 23, 2022February 27, 2022
Posted inEspionage

Monitoring ’62 missile crisis as a US spook in Tokyo

by Robert Whiting January 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Posted inOpinion

US-China rivalry and the ‘security dilemma’

by Benjamin Giltner January 15, 2022January 14, 2022
Posted inOpinion

Biden blinked, Putin won

by Brandon J Weichert June 1, 2021June 1, 2021
Posted inWorld

Trump and the legacy of US presidents

by Dave Makichuk November 17, 2019February 18, 2020
The United States and China are trading blows on economic and strategic fronts in what some see as the dawn of a new Cold War. Image: iStock/Getty Images
Posted inAfghanistan, AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, India, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, Vietnam, World

The new global tinderbox: It’s not your mother’s Cold War

by Michael T Klare October 31, 2018
US President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House on Friday May 25. Photo: AFP/ Mandel Ngan
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, European Union, Germany, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam, World

White House of Lies

by Joseph S Nye August 12, 2018August 12, 2018
Posted inChina, European Union, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, Syria, World

Unpredictable perhaps, but certainly not a madman

by Leon Hadar January 16, 2018
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Posted inChina, Israel, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, World

Ducking under desks to avoid The Bomb won’t save anyone

by Stephen Bryen September 16, 2017September 16, 2017
A propaganda poster blaming US and other countries' sanctions is seen in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang on August 17, 2017. The poster reads: 'No one can stop our way!' Photo: KCNA/via Reuters
Posted inChina, European Union, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Korea, Turkey, World

North Korea, US playing dangerous game of chicken

by Yoon Young-kwan August 20, 2017February 18, 2020
A good time to talk. The conference room used for meetings between military commanders of China and India, at the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, November 11, 2009.  Reuters/Adnan Abidi
Posted inAfghanistan, AT Finance, Australia, Bhutan, China, European Union, India, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Russia, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Does India have a history of being the aggressor with China?

by Richard King August 11, 2017August 11, 2017

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