Professor Christopher Andrew is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Cambridge. His most recent book is The Secret World: A History of Intelligence. His next book (with Julius Green) is Stars and Spies: Intelligence Operations and the Entertainment Business
Among the most alarming episodes during Donald J. Trump’s tumultuous final weeks in the White House was an announcement by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, on 10 January: ‘This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [General] Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an
The world came closer to thermonuclear warfare during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 than ever before or since. Most Americans now aged between their late fifties and late sixties remember ‘duck and cover’ drills during the crisis which taught them to hide under school desks and adopt the brace position in case of
