Cold War

An interview with Sergey Radchenko, author of the new book, To Run the World. The book offers a detailed portrait of Russian leadership during the Cold War, helming a sprawling nation with irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution.

This is an encore presentation.Lauren Wilkinson’s debut novel, American Spy, has been named one of the best of 2019 by Esquire, Time, Vogue, and a host of…

This is an encore presentation, originally broadcast in November, 2019.In the waning days of 1981, the Polish government, run by a Kremlin-backed prime…

This is an encore presentationOleg Gordievsky is hardly a household name in the United States, but his story is one of unparalleled intrigue, danger, and…

November 9,1989, Germans tore down the Berlin Wall that separated communist east Germany from the West. It was the beginning of the end of the Cold War.…

This program was originally broadcast in March, 2017.Six decades ago, President Harry Truman made a decision to fire an incredibly popular general with…

At the height of the Cold War, a seemingly unassuming Soviet electronics engineer reached out to several Americans he encountered in Moscow and offered…

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan challenged the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” Two years later, the Berlin Wall was…

This interview was originally broadcast in May of 2014.It’s no secret that the zero-sum game of Cold War politics often led U.S. policymakers into global…

RICHLAND, Wash. – A Hanford Nuclear Reservation watchdog says U.S. Energy officials have bigger problems than the waste that has possibly leaking from a