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Cold War

The Cold War was the long rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies, from the late 1940s to 1991.

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186 linked stories in all years we hold

Via Wikimedia Commons (US Army tanks face off against Soviet tanks, Berlin 1961)

The earliest story we hold is from Oct 26, 2021.

Stories involving Cold War0 named stories in 2026

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Week of Nov 9, 2026 - Nov 15, 2026: 0 left, 0 center, 1 right, under 1% of the sources that published that week · 1 articles

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Sep 21, 2026 - Sep 27, 202619402615118%
Sep 28, 2026 - Oct 4, 202619281511213%
Oct 5, 2026 - Oct 11, 2026102114539%
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Stories before June 28, 2026 come from archived pages, so who covered them is limited to the outlets we recovered for that period.

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90 left · 100 center · 86 right: 276 sources on the spectrum, across 186 linked stories.

Everything else31 updates in 2026 not part of any story, newest first

Updates about Cold War that are not part of any story yet

  1. Oct 21– 23Trump announces he'll use Defense Production Act to increase domestic gas production8 articles · 8 sources
    3 left, 2 center, 3 right
  2. Oct 6Cold War memories stir Rubio in Iceland as he champions diplomacy and downplays differences4 articles · 4 sources
    2 left, 2 center, 0 right
  3. Sep 27Bill Gates says getting countries to agree on AI regulations will be harder than Cold War-era nuclear negotiations9 articles · 5 sources
    1 left, 4 center, 0 right
  4. Sep 22– 24Seahawks’ Mike Macdonald says Broncos’ Sean Payton accused him of cheating in 202412 articles · 8 sources
    3 left, 3 center, 2 right
  5. Sep 21– 22What’s the US–China AI ‘hotline’ that Trump plans to pitch to Xi Jinping?3 articles · 3 sources
    1 left, 0 center, 1 right
  6. Sep 3– 4Finland runs Europe's biggest civil defense exercise since the end of World War II6 articles · 5 sources
    1 left, 2 center, 1 right
  7. Sep 2– 5‘Mayday’ Review: Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh Are Unlikely Cold War Buddies in a Pleasing Eighties Throwback14 articles · 13 sources
    2 left, 5 center, 2 right

Stories that name Cold War

  1. Oct 23– 26Kim Jong Un visits China, inaugurates bridge between the countries23 articles · 17 sources
    4 left, 8 center, 2 right
  2. Oct 12– 14MI5 chief says Iran is targeting military sites and suspected plot at RAF Fairford is 'not unique’43 articles · 32 sources
    8 left, 12 center, 7 right
  3. Oct 6– 7Germany's Ex-Spy Chief Arrested for Espionage and Treason — What We Know55 articles · 38 sources
    6 left, 15 center, 11 right
  4. Sep 30– Oct 2US can deport leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque on national security grounds, judge rules24 articles · 20 sources
    6 left, 7 center, 5 right
  5. Sep 30– Oct 4Russia sends nuclear warning to NATO as tensions rise in the Baltic18 articles · 18 sources
    4 left, 2 center, 7 right
  6. Sep 29– Oct 5Trump names national intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new AI czar95 articles · 65 sources
    15 left, 28 center, 15 right
  7. Sep 18– 24Trump signs Greenland security pact298 articles · 117 sources
    26 left, 44 center, 40 right
  8. Sep 11– 15China bristles at Anthropic CEO’s ‘fearmongering’ about its AI development74 articles · 44 sources
    11 left, 16 center, 9 right
  9. Sep 4– 7Trump calls Iran conflict "small potatoes"44 articles · 35 sources
    9 left, 19 center, 5 right
  10. Aug 17– 19Nvidia to post $105 billion for OpenAI data center in Ohio10 articles · 10 sources
    3 left, 2 center, 5 right

Local coverage

  1. Nov 7Writer Nick Harkaway expands his father John le Carré’s spyverse in new thriller ‘The Taper Man’3 articles · 3 sources
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  2. Oct 22Paweł Pawlikowski, master of the 90-minute movie, returns with 'Fatherland'4 articles · 3 sources
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