Tag: Cold War

Len Deighton, author who reinvented the spy thriller wi...

‘The poet of the spy novel’, he transformed a flashy, tuxedo-clad genre into som...

Did you know Africa once had nuclear weapons?

While the continent is legally committed to being a nuclear-free zone, its secur...

Berlin Wall opened for first time

20 December 1963

Stella Rimington, first female MI5 chief, dies aged 90

Former director general died on Sunday night ‘surrounded by her beloved family a...