International Affairs: The V.F. Archive Collection

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  Visit to a Small Planet

  Vanity Fair - Christopher Hitchens

  The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as “Fat Man and Little Boy.”) And a river runs through it. And on this river, the Taedong River, is moored the only American naval …

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  9/11: The Tapping Point

  Vanity Fair - David Rose

  One morning in June 2001, three months before the 9/11 attacks on the United States, I happened to be interviewing a senior official from the British Secret Intelligence Service, M.I.6. His current focus was the war on drugs, not international terrorism, but he shared a piece of information that …

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  Adventures in the Ransom Trade

  Vanity Fair - William Prochnau

  In these places, kidnapping is the residue left from decades of Cold War. I found disenchanted Cuban ideologues and the spent forces of a dozen Latin revolutions who’d grown into an unlikely capitalistic middle age—like American hippies driving Suburbans. But the kidnappers aren’t just retired …

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  Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House

  Vanity Fair - Michael Lewis

  On the morning after the election, November 9, 2016, the people who ran the U.S. Department of Energy turned up in their offices and waited. They had cleared 30 desks and freed up 30 parking spaces. They didn’t know exactly how many people they’d host that day, but whoever won the election would …

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  The Vietnam Syndrome

  Vanity Fair - Christopher Hitchens

  To be writing these words is, for me, to undergo the severest test of my core belief—that sentences can be more powerful than pictures. A writer can hope to do what a photographer cannot: convey how things smelled and sounded as well as how things looked. I seriously doubt my ability to perform …

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  A Flowering Evil

  Vanity Fair - Mark Seal

  The shooting of environmentalist Joan Root at her farm overlooking Lake Naivasha, last January, shocked Kenya's "Happy Valley" and the entire conservation world. Mark Seal investigates the violent clashes between desperate immigrant poachers and Root's private army that, some locals believe, brought …

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  On The Road With Arafat

  Vanity Fair - T. D. Allman

  When Yasser Arafat gave T.D. Allman ten minutes to scramble aboard his private jet, he refused to say where they were going. Forty hours and four countries later, it was clear to Allman that the real journey had been through the secret workings of Arafat’s world.