Cold War – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:43:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Cold War – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 The Iron Curtain: Division, Ideology, and the Struggle for Europe, 1945–1991 https://brewminate.com/the-iron-curtain-division-ideology-and-the-struggle-for-europe-1945-1991/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:28:57 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265215 The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 did not simply close a chapter in European history; it

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]]> Cold War Shadows: Roy Cohn and the Theater of the Red Scare https://brewminate.com/cold-war-shadows-roy-cohn-and-the-theater-of-the-red-scare/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:04:03 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=258774 To understand Roy Cohn is not to understand a villain. It is to understand a system that allowed

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]]> Is the Tetris Movie a Cold War History Lesson or Just a Movie About a Video Game? https://brewminate.com/is-the-tetris-movie-a-cold-war-history-lesson-or-just-a-movie-about-a-video-game/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:47:12 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=205554 If you imagine a movie based on the classic Tetris video game, you might expect a bright, fun,

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]]> The Nuclear Arms Race since World War II https://brewminate.com/the-nuclear-arms-race-since-world-war-ii/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:01:55 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=175338 With both sides in the Cold War having nuclear capability, an arms race developed. Introduction The nuclear arms race was

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]]> The Hidden Story of the West’s Most Important Double Agent in the Cold War https://brewminate.com/the-hidden-story-of-the-wests-most-important-double-agent-in-the-cold-war/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:04:48 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=166922 Polish intelligence officer Michal Goleniewski was a valuable CIA asset between his defection and the Agency’s decision to

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]]> The Cold War New and Old: Architectural Exchanges Beyond the West https://brewminate.com/the-cold-war-new-and-old-architectural-exchanges-beyond-the-west/ Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:04:11 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?page_id=117223 Architecture is a privileged lens to study collaboration, and its institutional, technological, and personal continuities. Recent reports on

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]]> Adapting to the New World: Mexico at the Outset of the Cold War, 1946-1952 https://brewminate.com/adapting-to-the-new-world-mexico-at-the-outset-of-the-cold-war-1946-1952/ Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:43:03 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=115047 Examining Mexico’s international strategy of economic development in these turbulent years. Introduction: Latin America’s Development Strategies versus Washington’s

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]]> U.S. Propaganda and the Cultural Cold War https://brewminate.com/u-s-propaganda-and-the-cultural-cold-war/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:31:33 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=103384 The United States was a relative latecomer to the world of mass propaganda and public diplomacy. By James

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]]> An American Tale: The Cold War and Propaganda https://brewminate.com/an-american-tale-the-cold-war-and-propaganda/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:31:02 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=103290 How Cold War officialdom made the world safe for propaganda. Introduction SINCE THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, Americans have been

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]]> Jimmy Carter’s Lasting Cold War Legacy https://brewminate.com/jimmy-carters-lasting-cold-war-legacy/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:35:18 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?page_id=95596 Former President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy efforts may have been far more effective than critics have claimed. Jimmy

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