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We all thought that the Cold War ended when the Soviet Union disolved in 1991. But recent remarks by the Russian President Valdimir Putin has NATO command asking if the Cold War is hot again.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in reacting to NATO missile defenses in eastern Europe, revealed that the cold war is still very much on his mind. His actions and style do as well.

Putin's rhetoric against the U.S. has risen to a near fever pitch. Is this old fashioned Soviet paranoia? After all, Vladimir Putin is a product of the Soviet KGB at the highest point of the Cold War.

President Bush and Albanian Prime Minister Berisha held a joint press conference Sunday.subjects discussed at the conference were: Albania's aspirations for NATO membership,support for the U.S. war on terror,Albanian improvements, and Kosovo's independence

In a speech delivered in Bulgaria, his final stop on an eight day tour of Europe in which he visited six different countries, Bush said that he hopes that the Russian leadership found his missile defense system analysis proposal "beneficial".

Russia is attempting to regain control of its oil and gas production. Russia is now the number two producer in the world. With surging output, Russia will be able to spend more money to re-arm itself and reclaim super-power status.

Soviet President Vladimir Putin proposed using a former Soviet radar site in Azerbaijan as the warning mechanism to detect nuclear missiles launched by "rogue states."

The fifty year ideological and military showdown of the Cold War saw its share of potential flash points, crises in Berlin, Saigon and Kabul. However, at no other point did the nuclear outcome seem as likely as it did during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

After fifteen years of introspection, economic and political struggle and despair, Russia appears to be rapidly reclaiming its lost strength - economic and political - and is expressing its renewed confidence as a powerful alternative to the United States in world affairs.

The U.S. missile defense facility in Eastern Europe is a source of contention as to its real purpose.

During the most intense years of the cold war, the NIKE surface-to-air missile defense system was the front line of air defense from the USSR. Although the bases in San Francisco never saw action, they were an important deterrent of war.

Having come to Kennebunkport Maine at George W. Bush's invitation to mend fences, Russian president Vladimir Putin made a new proposal concerning a missile-interception defense system that the U.S. wants placed in Eastern Europe.

"I draw your attention and that of your readers to the fact that, for the first time in history -- and I want to emphasize this -- there are elements of the U.S. nuclear capability on the European continent."

The G8 Summit is getting even more attention with the new series of announcements from Vladamir Putin.

Olbermann is making a lot of waves with his thought about how Bush and Cheney are doing in office.

The United States wants to erect a missile defense system in nations that were once controlled from Moscow by the Soviet Union. This expressed intention caused Russian President Vladimir Putin to accuse the U.S. of "imperialism" and "starting a new arms race."

In times reminiscent of the Cold War, the world is experiencing a growing sense of tension; blamed widely on Americas insistence on policing the world.

Back in the 1990's - after the disintegration of the Soviet Union - if you were one of those optimistic Americans who thought the Cold War was over and the US had won; it's time for a reality check.

Poland and the Czech Republic are working closely with the United States to build missile defense systems in their country. Russia is threatening them with Russian missiles if they make such an agreement with the United States.

The twenty-five years following World War II symbolize all the political institutions of an international warfare without the actual combat.

During his first press conference of 2007, President Bush was asked a variety of tough questions from the media in attendance.

The prisoner's dilemma is a decision making model that explains the pros and cons of cooperation and non-cooperation. Even the slightest mistrust can lead to one or both parties acting through fear of the other party's possible actions.

The Heritage Foundation has published a new web memo on new Russian presidential choice Dmitry Medvedev and probable prime minister Vladimir Putin.

Missle defences in Poland to stop North Korea? Where is the logic?

There are some countries that are taking this threat with a grain of salt while others fear the worst.

Although the Korean War was a vital part of American history, it's often called "the forgotten war". The view that many Americans have gained from Richard Hooker's novel M*A*S*H is not quite the reality.

Major event in Romania, U.S. president Bush and Russian president Putin meet.

Russia Federation once saw great Czars that fostered art and science, defeated both Napoleon and Hitler's imperialistic ambitions, and stood toe to toe with the greatest superpower that the world has ever seen. Now, it faces a new enemy.

Putin is a Commie and would love nothing more than to see a re-birth of the Soviet Union, and the subsequent fall of the US.

It is time to bomb Iran. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Government has committed acts of war against the United States. Tehran is threatening more assaults on world peace with rhetoric not heard since the early days of Adolf Hitler.

Could this be the start of a major conflict between the U.S., Venezuela, Cuba, and Russia?

As Putin's official Presidential term of office nears its conclusion - with elections set for March of 2008 - it appears the pressures of diplomatic double-speak and the shackles of friendly innuendo have been released.

Much of the world has been at odds with Russia in the last few months. Now that the Olympics will be held there in 2014, some nations may not go.

"The facts are that American explorers staked an American claim to the North Pole in the early 1900s and U.S. nuclear submarines traveled below the Pole and broke the ice in the 1950s."

Study of how Soviet foreign policy grew through economic cooperation with Iran from 1945-1979. Particular emphasis is shifted away from Cold War stances and upon nation to nation growth.

An overview of the New York Times' coverage of the unfolding Iran-Contra scandal in 1985 and 1986.

In Munich, Germany a little while back it seems that President Vladimir Putin and the United States are at each other.

The Bush administration is promoting a win-win policy on missile defense

This is my perspective on the United States' push to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe.

If President Bush wants more widespread support for privatization, he would be wise to incorporate distributive justice into his reform proposal.

An Open letter to President Bush thanking him.

The Eagle Forum, a pro-family organization is urging President Bush to pardon US Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who are now serving 11- and 12-year long prison sentences for trying to stop an illegal drug smuggler near El Paso.

President Bush paid his first visit to Mount Vernon this week, perhaps in response to Mount Vernon Executive Director James Rees's published charge that neither he nor President Clinton had done so.

A recap of the year President Bush has had.

President bush 's state of the union speech was filmed by many networking shows. All cameras captured the same image.

When I referred to him as Mr. Bush, he said "I'm just George." I had no idea I was meeting with a future Governor of Texas and United States President.

Republican Presidential candidate Sam Brownbeck, a United States Senator from Kansas, said Iran might one day attack America or Israel with a nuclear bomb. He said everything possible should be done to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

The Bush Administration continues to say that they support the troops, yet when it comes to dollars and cents, they abandon the troops again and again.

President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met this weekend to discuss a number of important issues. The two talked about Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and global warming.

Two very recent developments between Iran and the United States have taken tensions up a notch or two, and you may or may not be surprised about who within the United States Senate has called for a military strike against Iran at the same time.

Why President Vladimir Putin will reignite the Cold War, read on..

The United States can not and must not attack Iran, first off we are engaged in a brutal and bloody conflict with neighboring Iraq and another conflict with Iran's other neighbor Afghanistan.

I enjoy the music of the band Bush much more than I enjoy anything that comes out of the mouth of our President Bush. Doesn't everyone?

A docudrama of the assassination of President Bush is underway. Confusion and gossip about this docudrama is making politics a bit more interesting.

Many have said President Bush was lying when he said Iraq contained weapons of mass destruction, and America had to be made safe from them. A new government report proves he was right all along.

Any reasonable interpretation of the Constitution's impeachment clause leads to theconclusion that President Bush should be impeached for his high crimes against the United States.

From disregarding the Geneva Conventions to unwarranted wiretaps, President Bush has disregarded American citizens and people's constitutional rights

Saying, "It is time for (illegal aliens) to come out into the light," President Bush announced a sweeping proposal to end the immigration problem, "once and for all." His executive order has already been pre-approved.

The Republicans hated Bill Clinton so much that they took him through an impeachment process over sexual misconduct. With all that has come to pass regarding WMD in Iraq, a far greater case for impeachment can be made against Bush.

We all have Christmas wish lists. What about Christmas need lists? Here's some gifts President Bush could use.

This essay discusses main points made by Paxton relative to the inevitability of the Cold War, and a review of Paxton's analysis

Not content with bringing back Dark Age politics between the West and the Middle East, Pres. Bush sets his considerable talents for getting everything wrong on resurrecting the Cold War

I contend that the historical record bears true the argument that Ronald Reagan played a major role in ending the Cold War. Reagan accomplished this by embarking on an ambitious program of political, economic, and rhetorical assault on the Soviet Union.

Read all about how the plans to rebuild Europe after WWII led to World War III.

Recent foreign policy decisions are a historical reflection of policy decisions created during the Cold War.

An armchair philosopher's speculations on Russian ICBMs, and the Russian obsession with Lindsay Lohan.

Bush said in an interview yesterday that war protestors are angry and want us to win quicker. He added that Osama bin Laden was right about something.

The Cold War (1945-1991) dominated international relations within a framework of political, economic, and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The Cold War dominated international relations from the late 1940s to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Berlin wall fell and the Soviet Union fell apart, but is the cold war rearing its ugly head again?

Was Russia alone to blame for the Cold War?

The Iran missile test, which include the launch of the Shahab-3, which is capable of delivering a one ton warhead over 1240 miles, has caused slightly different responses in the Presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain.

cold war tensions in the middle east

A look at the theories of Democratization in Eastern Europe through the lens of the Internet and Internet policy.

Europe and Russia have two very interesting landforms located in the northern regions of the world.

Have you ever wished you could see a collection of past United States presidential aircraft? Maybe you would like to see the history of flight. You can see that and much more at the United States Air Force Museum at Dayton, Ohio.

The United States Senate voted 90-5 in favor of the concept that Iran is a viable threat to national and global security and that the United States and her allies should proceed with the development and deployment of a missile interceptor defense system.

There has only been talk about what the defense system means to Russia. We should be looking into what it means for Iran.

A new Israeli missile could deliver a nuclear payload to Iran.

America's economy flourished after World War II, resulting in the wealthy migrating away from cities, the poor taking their place, consumerism, and new attention to the civil rights movement.

A former advisor to Russian president Vladimar Putin describes evidence of fraud and law breaking in next week's parliamentary elections in Russia.

Vladimir Putin is slowly gaining power. The United States has the regain a strategic standing to stand against him.

This is an alternative history speculating what would happen following a German victory over Russia in World War II.

Iran's recent firing of missiles leaves many wondering what it is all about. Is it posturing or is it positioning?

This documentary, which is part biography, part history lesson, forms a companion piece to Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

There was a horrible sound over the Cold War Soviet skies, an explosion which marked the detonation of a SAM 2 antiaircraft missile meeting its target. A few minutes later, the twisted wreckage of an American U-2 spy plane came tumbling down.

Discussion about the implications of NATO's new first strike policy and Russia's response. The focus of pop culture in its attitude towards global annihilation. Doomsday, the movie, approaches.

Explain the prominence of Europe in the world today, including location, climate and physical resources, people and history.

In recent weeks there has been increased speculation about a potential military attack by Israel on Iran.

A war with North Korea is on the horizon. President Bush and the Republicans will heap many rewards from the stupidity of Kim Jong IL.

He scares me.

Relations are unsteady between President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, although they began their overnight visit at the Bush family's seaside summer home this Sunday.

Expanded engagement with Russia could yield more progress on Iran's nuclear program.

In 1984, director John Milius made Red Dawn, a film depicting the Soviet invasion of the United States and the efforts of partisans, mainly high school kids, to fight them off. Hollywood has never forgiven Milius for doing this.

Speaking from Prague, U.S. President Bush slammed Russia for what he calls a derailing of democracy in that nation.

The needs of real world spies have led to numerous and fascinating inventions. From poison-tipped umbrellas, to guns disguised as cigarette cases, discover some of the most creative gadgets used by real spies, from the Cold war and beyond