Monday, November 9, 2009 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. World leaders will join the crowds as part of Monday's celebrations. The Wall's original path next to the Brandenburg Gate has 1,000 giant painted dominoes have been set up that will be toppled on Monday evening in the presence of visiting leaders from Britain, France and Russia, in a symbolic re-enactment of the day the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago.

The Russian assault on Georgia, and reactions to it here in the USA, bring memories of the Cold War - especially the echoes of Hungary in 1956.

The Washington Post has an article on how the TV show Dallas won the cold war. They call it the "glorious decade of greed" but I prefer to remember it as the glorious decade of capitalism.

The UK's Royal Air Force has launched fighter jets to intercept eight Russian military planes flying in airspace patrolled by NATO, UK officials say.

Russia on friday resumes its Soviet-era practice of sending its bomber aircraft on long-range flights after 15 years, which they said is done as a retaliation to security threats posed by other military powers.

The risks of an accidental nuclear war have increased since the Cold War as Russia's early warning capability has deteriorated, a former U.S. defense official said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that NATO's further expansion eastward was reminiscent of the Cold War standoff between the Soviet Union and the West.

Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says the term "Cold War" will be forgotten if the United States accepts his country's missile-defense plan for Europe. But Ivanov is also threatening to deploy Russian missiles near Poland if Washington rejects the Kremlin offer. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports.

Russia's deputy prime minister said Wednesday the media could "forget the term Cold War" if the U.S. agreed to Russia's latest missile defense proposal to use a base in Russia instead of Central Europe.

With all the talk of a "new Cold War" breaking out between Russia and the United States, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee sought the input of two prominent cold warriors.

Prime Minister Tony Blair expects to have frank conversations with Vladimir Putin about his country's relations with Europe and the U.S.

Riki Ellsion, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org was pleased that President George W. Bush stood strong and called out President Putin today on Missile Defense before leaving to Germany where they are going to meet at the Group of 8 Leading Industrial Nations summit next week.