Cold War Archives

May 27, 2019USA

Prior to the Cold War: US Nuclear Plans Entailed Blowing Up Hundreds of Chinese, Soviet and Eastern European Cities

NOVANEWS By Shane Quinn Global Research On 30 August 1945, Major General Lauris Norstad dispatched a document to his superior, General Leslie Groves, outlining a total of 15 “key Soviet cities” to be struck with US atomic weapons, headed […]

March 16, 2017USA

Where Are The Peace Makers As U.S. Warms Up For Another Cold War

NOVANEWS Posted by Tom Compton The U.S. desperately needs new enemies to keep its war based economy on high alert. It should be intuitive obvious to the casual observer, including Christians who claim to follow […]

February 9, 2017Russia, USA

A Prerequisite for Ending the Cold War in Europe: Return Occupied Kaliningrad Back to Königsberg

NOVANEWS By Douglas Edward Steil President Trump promised efforts to improve US relations with Russia, yet even after his inauguration there were reports in the media, including videos, about a large buildup of NATO tanks, […]

January 11, 2017Russia, USA

The Utter Stupidity of the New Cold War

NOVANEWS By Gary Leupp It seems so strange, twenty-seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to be living through a new Cold War with (as it happens, capitalist) Russia. The Russian president is […]

November 14, 2016Russia, USA

Taking a Page from Joe McCarthy

NOVANEWS By Robert Parry One trick of the original McCarthyism from the Old Cold War was to take some innocuous or accurate comment from a leader in Moscow — saying something like “poverty is […]