New 'cold war' grows ever warmer as the prospect of a nuclear arms race hots up


by Phys.org

Phys.org— Champagne corks popped on December 3, 1989 as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president George H.W. Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the cold war.

The Guardian—A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion?. In history, as in romance, beginnings matter – so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the futureIn these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the former director of the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, proposes in a new book? Is this bringing us towards the brink of a third world war, as the historian Niall Ferguson has argued? Or, as I have found myself suggesting on occasion, is the...

New York Post—New Cold War with a new axis of evil: Isolationists in the US, GOP must join the fight as dark forces gather. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s great epic, “The Lord of the Rings,” it becomes apparent only gradually that the forces of darkness have united.

Time—How the U.S. Can Win the New Cold War. Confronting the reality of China’s threat to the U.S.-led global order requires a deep, hard reassessment.