1981: Ronald Reagan's inauguration marks a new escalation in the United States? Cold War with the USSR. Months later, Fran?ois Mitterrand is elected president of France with the support of the French Communist Party. The predicted tension between these two men, however, is immediately defused when M[...]
In 1953, sequestered in New York's infamous Sing Sing prison, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg became the only American civilians to be executed for spying during the Cold War. Theirs had become a universal cause celebre, with the sentencing judge, Irving Kaufman, declaring in his summing up: '...who know[...]