Oxford University Press, 2025, 184 pages Thriller ‘Final Orbit’ By Chris Hadfield Strap in for a highly suspenseful Cold War thriller set in space.

That was when the post-Cold War world began.

China's export control action preceded the Dutch government’s decision on Oct. 12 to invoke the Cold War-era Goods Availability Act to assert control over Nexperia’s management, citing signals of “serious governance shortcomings” and the potential loss

In both world wars, foreign-born naturalized citizens had their citizenship revoked if they aligned or worked with enemy powers, he stated, continuing that this practice was used in the Cold War for those who concealed their allegiance to the communist

“The Russian-Ukrainian War can also be seen as a continuation of the Cold War and a proxy war.

Under Secretary of War Eldridge Colby delivered a speech at the NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels, saying, "The world that shaped the habits, assumptions, and force posture of NATO during the so-called 'unipolar moment' following the Cold War

The Soyuz rocket, designed during the Cold War, carried Iran’s Nahid-2 satellite into orbit on July 25, from a commercial launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s eastern Amur province.

In reviewing the benefits of the Apollo-Soyuz mission—primarily that it helped to set the stage for post-Cold War U.S.

U.S. troops have been stationed in Germany since 1945, after the end of World War II. During the Cold War, almost 250,000 Americans were deployed in the country.

The Special Relationship between the UK and the United States dates back to the end of the Second World War and the early Cold War period.

Indeed, the United States has determined that the threats from the CCP are greater than those of the Cold War. We’ll discuss these topics and more in this episode of Crossroads.

The move was made under the rarely used Cold War-era Goods Availability Act, marking the first such action in Dutch industrial history. In response, Beijing also blocked the exports of Nexperia’s products from China.

Cold War-era reactor experts are retiring, and the ranks of new nuclear engineers are insufficient to sustain a nuclear resurgence.

They compellingly argue that the United States’s positioning of the CCP as a collaborator—rather than a peer competitor—after the Cold War was a large part of what allowed the meteoric rise of the Marxist-Leninist state.

President Donald Trump said he was strongly considering pulling out of the alliance, which was established in 1949 in the early years of the Cold War.

During the Cold War, the American supermarket was often held up as the model of prosperity.

On Oct. 12, the Netherlands invoked the Cold War-era Goods Availability Act—for the first time—to assert control over Nexperia’s management and block strategic decisions without government approval for one year.

The territorial dispute between China and the Soviet Union continued into the Cold War era, despite both being communist regimes.

There are underground facilities dating back to the Cold War days in the West, but most have been decommissioned. Canada’s “Diefenbunker” in Ottawa is a museum and tourist attraction.

At the height of the Cold War, NASA’s Apollo program had a loftier mission than merely beating the Soviets to the moon; the goal was to demonstrate to the world the superiority of American freedom and the American way of life.

Second, the CCP claims to stand against “power politics” and “the Cold War mentality,” while refusing to engage in the kinds of nuclear weapons limitation agreements that ended the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The deficit expanded significantly during the Reagan years as the administration pursued tax cuts, strengthened Cold War defense spending, and battled inflation.

So yes, the CIA essentially bet part of its Cold War budget on a man whose "psychic powers" could be undone by someone shouting, “What’s that behind you?!”

He is speaking openly about a “new world order,” economic coercion, and the end of the comfortable assumptions that defined the post-Cold War period.

Hamiltonian-style geoeconomics also informed the Reagan administration’s successful strategy that won the Cold War.

In 1983, Reagan first referred to the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” presenting the Cold War as a moral conflict between good and evil.

Dutch Economy Minister Vincent Karremans announced the reversal in a statement on X, saying that suspending the order invoked under the Cold War-era Goods Availability Act regarding Nexperia represents “a show of goodwill.”

Founded in 1953, the agency's goal was to spread pro-democracy news to countries affected by the spread of communism during the Cold War. It was shuttered in 1999.

This chilling Cold War thriller is elevated by a stellar cast, strong performances, and an ever-growing sense of dread as the possibility of nuclear war looms large.

The end of the Cold War marked a turning point in Canada’s defense posture.