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CPU collector peels the lid off a Soviet-era ‘fish can’ chip to peer inside with multiple microscopes — K565RU3 was a Cold War-era clone of Western chips that powered Apple II, Commodore PET, and original IBM PC

A fascinating Soviet-era retro electronics artifact has been dissected and micrographed by a CPU collector.

Tom’s Hardware

No Excuses for Zohran Mamdani and Radical Socialism

The new mayor's buddy, Hasan Piker, wishes the Soviet Union had won the Cold War.

Reason

Talk of new atomic tests by Trump and Putin should make UK rethink its role as a nuclear silo for the US

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said that Russia may could carry out nuclear weapons tests for the first time since the cold war.

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Soviet soldiers and chunks of the Wall: NFL's first visit to Berlin came as the Cold War ended

The LA Rams and Kansas City Chiefs’ game in Berlin in the shadow of the Cold War remains one of the strangest and most significant preseason games in league history

The Independent UK

Cold War bunker near Bristol to be auctioned for £20,000

The underground bunker was built in 1960 for the Royal Observer Corps, a group of volunteers set up to monitor nuclear attacks

Evening Standard

Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the tiny hamlet split in two by the cold war

A new museum in Mödlareuth tells the story of how a settlement of only 50 people straddled Bavaria in West Germany and Thuringia in the east

The Guardian - UK

The Nuclear Club: The 9 countries armed with nukes as US set to resume weapons testing

IN FOCUS: There has been renewed focus on nuclear arsenals after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, James C Reynolds and Maryam Zakir-Hussain report

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5 political thrillers like 'A House of Dynamite' but better

Frustrated with "A House of Dynamite's" ending? Watch these captivating political thrillers next

Tom’s Guide

Netflix’s A House of Dynamite sounds the nuclear alarm, but how worried should we be?

As a teenager in the 1980s, I was shown a BBC drama in school called Threads that depicted the impact of a nuclear strike on a city in northern England. Threads is a brutal vision of a terrifying reality that I imagine haunted many people in the years before the…

The Conversation

A Nostalgic Read for Foreign Policy Elites

Michael McFaul's new book feels like it was written in 2015, not 2025.

Reason

Did Aliens Watch Our Nuclear Tests? Scientist Links 100,000 UFOs to Atomic Blasts in Chilling Report

A Swedish astrophysicist's study of vanishing stars has been miscast online as proof of alien monitoring of nuclear tests — but scientists say that's fiction, not fact.

International Business Times UK

UFOs! Mick Jagger! Cold War paranoia! The bizarre origins of one of the biggest hits of the 1980s

The smash hit song reflected both the decade's geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism

MusicRadar

From the cold war to today, why espionage cases are so difficult to prosecute

The collapse of the prosecutions of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry is a reminder that bringing charges for espionage can be an extremely risky business, particularly in western democracies. Cash and Berry were accused of spying for China, but the CPS dropped the case before it could go to trial.…

The Conversation

‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks, on 19 October 1945, George Orwell published an essay in the London Tribune, entitled “You and the Atom Bomb”. In it, he surmised what if “the great nations make…

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Radio France Internationale

Microchip factory in Netherlands caught in tussle between Europe, China and US

Dutch authorities have, for the first time ever, invoked Cold War-era legislation to take control of a Chinese-owned microchip factory – prompting backlash from China. The move underlines the intensifying competition between the United States, China and Europe for global leadership in semiconductor technology.

MusicRadar

“That song wanted to be written! You don’t plan something like that”: Nena speaks to us about the making of her era-defining classic 99 Red Balloons

We catch up with Nena on a song that reflected both the 1980s’ geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism - and took some inspiration from Mick Jagger

Evening Standard

Appeal to preserve last flying Vulcan bomber for future generations

The Vulcan to the Sky Trust said the Cold War bomber has a home but they need funds

The Guardian - UK

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games

A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm

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Le Carré, Bacchae and radical feminist punk art – what to see and watch this week

John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex characters navigating the shadowy ethics of Cold War intelligence. Gritty, ambiguous and deeply human,…

The Independent UK

From bombs to glass: Hanford site can now transform nuclear waste

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end of the Cold War

GamesRadar

Is Black Ops 7 at risk of cannibalizing its own audience with Endgame and Zombies? Treyarch says that "player-driven pacing" is a key difference between the two co-op game modes

Treyarch says Endgame grew out of "a lot of learnings from Black Ops Cold War's Outbreak and Modern Warfare Zombies"

Euronews

EU drone wall: Keep calm and prepare, expert says

Alexandr Burilkov told Euronews that European countries are lagging far behind Russia and Ukraine when it comes to drone technology, but leaders should not overreact to the recent drone incidents.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s Future Fund discloses huge profits from weapons manufacturers despite fierce criticisms of support for industry

Value of shares in eight companies rockets amid sharpest increase in military spend since cold war

The Guardian - UK

Russia’s provocations are menacing Nato. The cold war shows how it needs to respond

Despite the cost of shooting down fighter jets and drones, small skirmishes remind both sides of the dangers of escalation, says academic Sergey Radchenko

Space

Astronaut Chris Hadfield explores murder in space in new Cold War space thriller 'Final Orbit' (exclusive)

Hadfield's 'Kaz' Zemeckis returns for this third entry in the bestselling author's 'The Apollo Murders' series

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