As we enter the second half of the 2020s, AI capabilities are increasingly becoming the key determinant of economic and military might. Hence, after years of ratcheting up US controls on exports ...

it's important to understand the differences between cast iron and wrought iron. Cast iron fences are made specifically by pouring molten iron into molds. This process allows for fancier patterns ...

the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that took a leading role in smuggling banned books into the communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s. Of course, the US mission wasn’t devoid ...

Last year a group of economists carried out an an analysis on the economic impact of the Iron Curtain; how much trade actually took place from east to west in spite of all the restrictions during ...

As a topflight U.S. military analyst, the New York Times’s Hanson W. Baldwin usually gets a cordial welcome at the Pentagon. But last week he got a rude surprise. When he tried to make ...

In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on central and eastern Europe after the Second World War? Episode Two: The whole communist world celebrates Stalin’s 70th birthday in December ...

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on central and eastern Europe after the Second World War? From 1945 until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, citizens of central and ...

And so it begins. After revising their schedule twice, the 27 member states are finally expected to approve, on Wednesday, April 9, the first retaliatory measures against the tariff hikes imposed ...

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