One man who had influence over such weapons ... Determined Spy, is not the first study of Wisner—he is one of the central figures, for instance, in Scott Anderson’s trenchant The Quiet Americans: Four ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

The great John le Carré had it much easier. He wrote his espionage fiction mainly during the Cold War, when the concoctions of spy novelists and scriptwriters seemed to be in dialogue with reality.

conducting the biggest reconstruction of America’s anti-submarine spy program since the end of the Cold War. The revival of the multibillion-dollar effort, known as the Integrated Undersea ...

The document was written more than a week after Ethel Rosenberg’s arrest — her husband was arrested a month earlier — presumably to summarize what was known about a Soviet spy ring operating in the ...

JFK: Celebrity in the White House - Why is he still an icon of the Cold War era? By Professor Lewis L Gould The story of one of the most damaging spy rings in British history - and the astonishing ...

Parker Sawyers and Alec Secăreanu in "Spy/Master." Credit: Courtesy of HBO Max With its Cold War paranoia and tangled web of secrets, HBO Max's Spy/Master makes for a solid entry into the canon ...

The making of a Cold War spy. The life and work of Frank Wisner ... One man who had influence over such weapons was President Harry Truman’s secretary of defense, James Forrestal.