Cold War Archives

Cold War

Behind the Veil of Indifference

Lessons from a nuclear life

Destroyer of Worlds

by Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

Ghost Stories

by Kim Wall,

Idi Amin's torture chambers

The New Red Scare

by Andrew Cockburn,

Reviving the art of threat inflation

Fifty Years Under a Cloud

by Tom Engelhardt,

The uneasy search for our atomic history

American Imperium

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

The Antiglobalists

by John R. MacArthur,

"Both Sanders and Trump affirm their determination to rebuild an America weakened by unhealthy relationships with the outside world."

Revisionist History

by John Reed,

Is George Orwell's Animal Farm based on the work of a nineteenth-century Russian writer?

Manual of Trickery and Self-Deception

From a recently declassified article, written by an author whose name was redacted, published in the winter 1986 issue of Studies in Intelligence, the in-house journal of the CIA.

Borderline Euphoric