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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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October 15, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: The United States Discovers Soviet Missiles in Cuba
The phone call came at an inconvenient time for McGeorge Bundy. The forty-three year-old national security adviser was hosting a sendoff dinner for the new U.S. ambassador to France, Charles “Chip” B…
October 20, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: JFK Fakes a Cold (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Five)
Have you ever faked an illness to get out of a meeting or to avoid an obligation? President John F. Kennedy can do you one better. He faked a cold on Saturday, October 20, the fifth day of the Cuban …
November 7, 2014
United States
The History of the Cold War in 40 Quotes
On Monday, I posted my nominees for ten Cold War histories worth reading. But many people don’t have the time or patience to plow through comprehensive histories. So for TWE readers looking to save t…
October 16, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: Learning More About the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union closer to nuclear war than any other event during the Cold War. President John F. Kennedy put the odds of war at “somewhere bet…
December 17, 2019
Religion
Brexit and the Future of Northern Ireland
Jonathan Stevenson discusses Brexit and the future of Northern Ireland.
