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Why the Ukraine conflict isn’t a new Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

President Bill Clinton laughs at Boris Yeltsin's joke during a joint news conference in Hyde Park, New York, October 1995

“We missed a precious window”: why did America and Russia squander an opportunity for peace in the 1990s?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and French President Jacques Chirac at the NATO Summit in May 1997

Nato, Russia, and the history of the post-WW2 tensions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of fence and barbed wire

Q&AWhat does Iron Curtain mean, and who popularised the term?

Two boys uncover a cache of food during Ukraine’s Holodomor famine, c1934

“Russia has always refused to let Ukraine go”: Keith Lowe on the long roots of today’s crisis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nixon in China: a week that changed the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

America’s Cold War culture boom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cold war mind games. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Turning points1956: The shock of Suez. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Klaus Fuchs: the scientist who became the Soviet super spy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Espionage history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The CIA’s secret African missions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John F Kennedy with US Army officials during the Cuban missile crisis

“We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked”: how the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nikita Khrushchev visits President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1964

Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Olympic history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Cold War battle for Berlin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history and mystery of UFOs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The trials of Ethel Rosenberg. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US NATO Army on training in Germany

Able Archer 83: the Nato war-game that nearly spelled nuclear disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sending the first man into space. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Spy plane photos revealed that missile bases were being built on Cuba, prompting the crisis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What if...The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Cold War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hunting down the Portland Spy Ring. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Castro and the trip that shaped the 1960s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage vessel disguised as a mining ship, designed to secretly recover Soviet sub K-129

Project Azorian: the Cold War CIA mission to snatch Soviet nuclear sub K-129 from the sea floor