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American History October 2003 Dinesh D'Souza |
President Ronald Reagan: Winning the Cold War With the invasion of Grenada, Cold War history began a dramatic turn that would lead to the demise of an empire. Ronald Reagan's clarity of vision and unwavering beliefs led to the dismantling of America's most formidable foe. |
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Joyce Barnathan |
The Cowboy Who Roped In Russia Reagan repeatedly upped the ante -- and convinced Moscow he meant business. |
Reason June 2007 Daniel McCarthy |
Revising Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History, by John Patrick Diggins, poses the question: Was the 40th president a peace-loving moderate? |
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Joyce Barnathan |
Inside The Great Thaw The education of Ronald Reagan is one of many absorbing recollections in Jack F. Matlock Jr.'s book, Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. |
Reason November 2003 Glenn Garvin |
The Gipper and the Hedgehog How an "amiable dunce" outsmarted the world -- a review of Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, by Peter Schweizer |
Salon.com October 15, 2002 Andrew Sullivan |
Idiocy of the week A leading thinker on the left finds strange inspiration from Ronald Reagan. |
Wired Nicholas Thompson |
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret. |
Reason April 2004 Glenn Garvin |
Fools for Communism In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage, by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. Chilling and often perversely funny, it details the intellectual sleight of hand to which many American historians of communism and the Soviet Union have resorted as newly revealed archives in Moscow and Washington suggest they were, well, fools. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: The Cold War To bring you up to speed, we present five things you didn't know about the only war that categorically could have ended all wars through total and complete annihilation -- the Cold War. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 |
Secrets of Sputnik Fifty years ago this month, the Soviet Union launched the world's first device into orbit. Here are the facts long kept hidden. Place... Liftoff... etc. |
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Ken Silverstein |
Blasts from the past The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign... |
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Ken Silverstein & David Isenberg |
Political Intelligence What happens when U.S. spies get the goods -- and the government won't listen? |
Wired February 25, 2008 Jeremi Suri |
The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam New documents offer additional proof that Richard Nixon planned to end the Vietnam war with a fake nuclear strike on the USSR. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 James Oberg |
Copying NASA's Mistakes The Soviet version of the U.S. space shuttle was an engineering marvel but a total waste. |
Reason August 2003 Bailey et al. |
Forcing Freedom Can liberalism be spread at gunpoint? |
Reason July 2007 Cathy Young |
The Good Czar Every day in President Vladimir Putin's Russia is a reminder that the window of freedom the country enjoyed in the Yeltsin era (and even, in some respects, in the tail end of the Gorbachev years) is closing. |
Reason December 2001 Nick Gillespie |
The New Cold War More and more parallels emerge between the war on terrorism and the Cold War... |