The Cold War was hottest during Reagan's tenure, notwithstanding Cuban Missile Crisis, and US hostility towards Soviet Union went back to its in 1917, when afterwards, with other Western nations, it sent troops to fight Soviet Union on the side of Whites. ..…

The Alliance championed the so-called zero option as the outcome of US- Soviet INF negotiations because it would remove all INF missiles rather than simply controlling their growth in balanced ways. ..…

Stephen Cohen and I emphasize that the state of tension today between United States and Russia is more dangerous than during Cold War between the US and Soviet Union. ... The scary part of the story is that US intelligence was so incompetent that Washington had no idea that..…

In, I documented the efforts of Arabists in State Department to prevent the partition of Palestine primarily because of concern that US support for Jewish state would threaten access to oil and allow Soviet Union to gain influence in the region. ..…

Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 16th 1962 when US President John F Kennedy was shown photographs taken by U2 spy plane that gave proof that Soviet Union was building missile launching sites Cuba from. Ground-based intelligence had alerted the US, and led it to conduct the..…

China has replaced the empire of Soviet Union and ' Islamic as US's adversary. But China, unlike Soviet Union, has economy, with which the US has enormous trade deficit. ..…

It brought them to America the US was looking for 'ex Nazis who could help the US conquer Soviet Union. ... Soviet interest in their satellite states and instead it was about the US policy, immediately after WW II, to take over not merely the nations that the..…

Common sense suggests that by 4 Germans had been pushed back into Eastern Europe and out of Soviet territory after suffering disastrous losses, and the US was about to to join European with D-Day landings. ... The only reason that epic holocaust did not happen was that Pentagon argued..…

But most of the features that defined the US-Soviet Union Cold War are absent in the US-China case.  . ... The US and China are engaged in an intense competition in a number of ways; but this is not a cold war and, though this is a challenging moment, I don't think it..…

Banner photo Illustration of in orbit © MIyabi-K Pixta ) ^ Sputnik occurred October 1957, during the US- Soviet Cold War, when Soviet Union succeeded in launching the world's first satellite, Sputnik 1. ..…

We’re told that the US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty singed in 1987 between the US and Soviet Union was based on claims that Russia had violated it. . ... The collapse of the Soviet Union and the US invasion of Iraq..…

Today, with the US decision to walk away from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force negotiated with Soviet Union, we are once again staring into the abyss of one of the most nuclear challenges since the height of Cold War.. The US withdrawal should be seen in the context of the..…

Faced with SS20 threat, Schmidt pushed the US to match Soviets by deploying its own short-range nukes Europe.  .. ... By holding at risk targets in Pershing II's extended range allows NATO to counter the unilateral threat of SS20 missile Soviet Union, declared US Army video..…

Why the Soviet influence? Why the US involvement at all? . I still remember my thrill at the revelation that the split in Korea actually dates back to the end of World War II. ... The US-Soviet alliance during World War II is often taken for granted but we should remain..…

The US-Soviet alliance during World War II is often taken for granted but we should remain ever amazed that within the span of a few short years US-Soviet relations moved from eager cooperation to bitter rivalry. ... But even more than the immediate physical costs, the..…

That pact, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, was signed by then-US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev during Cold War, in 1987.. then-US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev sign..…

Publishing nine articles consecutively to criticize a strategic rival was a tactic previously adopted by the CCP during rising tensions with the Soviet Union back in 1966. “Both of us [Soviet Union and CCP] said a lot of words which are nonsense [in those commentaries],” Deng..…

The main signatories were the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan the US and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were guarantors. ... The differences between Vietnam and the US and Soviet interventions Afghanistan are of course many. ..…

He campaigned for president on the argument that Eisenhower had allowed missile gap between Soviet Union and United States to form — even after he received intelligence that indicated that any gap was favor of the US, not Soviets. ..…

I learned about the highest point, Freedom Sunday rally on Washington Mall December 1987, when quarter of million people came together to demand freedom of emigration for Soviet Jewry.. I feel grateful to all who helped us along the way  those who fought for us, led us on our own trek..…

GT: What do you think is the biggest difference between current China-US relations and US-Soviet Union relations during the Cold War? ... That was not the case for the Soviet Union and the US. . The Soviet Union wanted to destroy the economic system of..…

The states alongside the US during the US-Soviet bipolar world might have been the recipient of the US aid and weaponry. ..…

Putin's Russia, leaving no room or incentive for rethinking any US policy toward post-Soviet Russia since 1991.. ..…

Along with the US, Soviet Union was involved in the conflict, and Soviets limited themselves to supplying weapons and military advisors to the North Koreans. ... The very next day after the incident, Soviet Union filed complaint with the UN about the US attack on the..…

At least American Communist Party, now largely under the control of Moscow, was active force in US politics, with some appeal to intellectuals and others, and bookstores and schools all amply supplied with English-language Soviet propaganda and disinformation   in many major cities.. ..…

At least American Communist Party, now largely under the control of Moscow, was active force in US politics, with some appeal to intellectuals and others, and bookstores and schools - all amply supplied with English-language Soviet propaganda and disinformation  - in many major cities.. ..…

Thirty years the US is still fighting the monster they helped create in their anti- Soviet crusade.. ... One of the great myths about Afghanistan war is that the US started backing Islamist fighters after Soviet Union tanks rolled into the country on December 24, 1979. ..…

For forty-five years, following the end of WWII, the world was locked into US-led Cold War against Soviet Union.. ... It took thirty years for Soviet Union to amass nuclear arsenal equal to that of the US and the consequence of Cold War was that nations across the world..…

Wit was also involved in US-Soviet arms control negotiations, and recalls that during those negotiations both the United States and the Soviet Union continued to produced new weapons that were to be covered by the agreement. ..…

The anticipated withdrawal of the US from the  US-Soviet Union Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty of 1987, the progress of Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic weapons and underwater drones, indefinite extension of the New START treaty, the progress of Tactical Nuclear..…

Meanwhile, the US feared Soviet influence expanding in Iran. . Out of these fears came TPAJAX, a CIA-backed coup plot to overthrow Mossadegh. ... He allowed US and British spies to monitor the Soviet Union from secret bases in Iran. ..…

This ex-US author of ground-breaking work on CIA black sites equally secret US weapons dumps has audience at both Harvard and Maxwell US Air Force Base. Here's guy Reagan administration wanted to send to prison for revealing the location of US and Soviet nuclear weapons, and. ..…

The Cold War concepts of “Mutually Assured Destruction” and “Deterrence” not to mention the US-Soviet Union communications “hotline” had been scrapped. . Is nuclear war part of a US policy agenda? Is it on the drawing-board of the Pentagon? ..…

By cartoon on, Was New Yorker just inspiredUS elections — RT US News. cartoon published by New Yorker depicting in the US has drawn comparisons with Soviet poster about fraud and disenfranchisement in 1950s America.. ..…

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Stephen Cohen elaborates on the following points regarding Trump's decision to withdraw from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed by the US and Russia in 1987. - For whatever reasons, both leaders at the time, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail..…

North Korea's nuclear program is neither similar to the US, Russian Federation (former Soviet Union) and other declared nuclear powers nor like the non signatory of NPT nuclear countries like Pakistan and India. ... Japan assured the US to provide required facilities and services...…

Trump has made it his signature move to repudiate the signatures of others, and the latest, promised evacuation from US-Soviet pact otherwise known as Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty was another artefact to be abandoned.. ..…

To combat Soviet influence and the spread of Europe, the US implemented Marshall Plan designed to rebuild the economy of Western Europe. The assumption of the US during Cold War was that Soviet Union was rotten to the core and would collapse under political and..…

For us, Soviet power has been the ultimate measure and the central threat, idea and source of orientation.. ..…

These limitations were demonstrated, by the US defeats Korea and Vietnam, the settlement of Cuban missile crisis, and the acceptance of Soviet of Baltic and Eastern Europe.. ..…

Aside from Cuban missile crisis, the closest the US and Soviet Union came to starting World War III was on October 27, 1961, when US and Soviet tanks faced each other Berlin, Germany. ... Interestingly, in 1980, while the embassy and tunnel were under construction,..…