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I noticed this week that Marshall’s Adult Community Center sponsored a presentation about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It involved a tense two weeks when the world came close to nuclear war. The ...

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The Gouzenko spy scandal reverberated throughout the world. In the United States as in Canada, there was heightened suspicion ...

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President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to resume nuclear testing for the first time since a moratorium was declared in 1993.

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...