All news on the topic: Cold War

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UK war fears as British Army boasts fewer tanks than neutral Switzerland
With only 217 armoured tanks, the UK sits in 57th place for vehicle numbers - ranking worryingly behind peace-loving Switzerland who haven't fought in a war in 200 years
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Nuked blood: Test veterans told to search for their own missing medical records
Nuclear veterans whose blood records are mysteriously missing from records of Cold War radiation tests have been refused government help to find them
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Ukraine war puts UK at greatest threat of 'nuclear escalation' since Cold War
A long-awaited study of the future for UK defence notes escalating threats from Moscow while China also poses a long-term challenge along with North Korea and Iran
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Ben Wallace warns of China Cold War by 2030 and says Putin's 'not done with us'
Ben Wallace, who marks four years as Defence Secretary on July 24, said his biggest worry as he prepares to stand down in the middle of a war in Europe was a military conflict with Moscow
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Nuked blood: Rishi Sunak is urged to uncover the truth on missing health records
The PM has been told to fix his "broken promises" as MPs urge an investigation into missing blood records of nuclear veterans
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Evidence of crimes against Brit servicemen in Cold War radiation experiments
The nuked blood scandal first exposed by the Mirror last year has uncovered shocking new evidence of possible crimes committed by the British state against its own servicemen
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MoD 'doesn't know' how many veterans are infertile after radiation experiments
Yet another veteran of the Cold War has died alone without family, with friends desperately trying to trace distant relatives in the hope they can attend his funeral
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PS Plus July 2023 leaks reveal Call of Duty and Alan Wake as free games
PS Plus leaker Billbil-Kun has revealed that Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, Alan Wake Remastered and Endling Extinction is Forever will be our PS Plus essential titles for July 2023
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Tory row over delivering the nuclear veteran medal
The long-awaited honour was promised in summer, but the Ministry of Defence says the "timescale has been revised"
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West should arm for a 'generational struggle' with Russia, warns defence chief
Chief of the General Staff General Sir Patrick Sanders used a speech at the Royal United Services Institute’s Land Warfare Conference to highlight the threat from Moscow
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Furious nuclear test veterans still waiting for medals threaten Cenotaph protest
Veterans of the nuclear tests waged a long fight for official recognition, but a year on from meeting the Prime Minister they're being told the medals are delayed
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Ministry of Defence demands cash back from troubled veterans' charity
The British Nuclear Test Veterans Association says it has recovered from being "effectively insolvent" and insists it is still "financially viable"
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Liz Truss to warn UK and EU 'can't wash their hands' of Taiwan in swipe at Sunak
The former Prime Minister will become the first ex-UK premier to visit the breakaway island for 27 years, following in the footsteps of idol, Margaret Thatcher
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Putin sends woman, 23, to prison for 'high treason' of opposing Ukraine war
Tamara Parshina is just 23-years-old and she was seen being marched through the streets by armed male FSB officers and flown eight hours away to a Moscow jail
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A footballer, bricklayers, Teddy Boys - memories of National Service 60 years on
The Royal British Legion is organising an event at the National Memorial Arboretum to mark the sacrifices of the National Service generation
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Nuclear heroes win £250,000 documentary project
Veterans of the British nuclear tests are being sought for a £250,000 project to create a documentary with the British Library, and to be taught to A-level students
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Nuclear veterans are 'the wrong sort of heroes' for a medal, claim campaigners
Campaigners are furious after the Ministry of Defence confirmed not every veteran who took part in Cold War nuclear tests will get a medal
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Abandoned nuclear bunker once found by one of UK's busiest roundabouts
Coryton, in Cardiff, housed one of 13 undergrouns bunkers which would have been brought into use in the 1950s had Parliament been destroyed in a nuclear attack by Russia
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Aaron Rodgers and New York Jets in ‘cold war’ over Green Bay Packers demands
The Green Bay Packers’ former MVP has made it clear he expects to be playing for the New York Jets next year, but all parties involved are facing a race against time to complete a trade
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Woman buys grubby sculpture for £28 only to discover it's priceless artwork
Art collector Laura Young bought the sculpture from a Goodwill store in Texas, America, for £28 but later discovered it's actually a 2,000-year-old ancient Roman work of art
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UFOs shot at over UK by US Air Force in 'British Roswell incident' says ex-cop
The now notorious incident in Rendelsham Forest, Suffolk, dubbed the British Roswell, saw US soldiers shooting down a UFO buzzing over RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge
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Truss lectures world on tax cuts - despite causing economic carnage with her own
Ms Truss, who aborted her plan to cut taxes for the richest Brits while in No10, will argue 'low taxes, limited government and private enterprise were what won the Cold War'
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Warship King Charles served on set to be restored after becoming a sunken wreck
When he was Prince of Wales, Charles commanded HMS Bronington for nearly one year but, since it was decommissioned, it has fallen into hard times
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Brittney Griner sends message to Joe Biden over reporter detained in Russia
WNBA star Brittney Griner - who returned to the United States via prisoner swap in December - has called on president Joe Biden to intervene after a journalist was detained in Russia this week
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Secret KGB academy trained up young men and women to seduce Brit diplomats
The KGB's top-secret facility in Kazan, east of Moscow, targeted young men and women from impoverished parts of Russia and trained them in Marxism, spycraft and seduction