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Cold War’s best kept secret: Spy satellite that stayed hidden for 30 years
Lee M. Hammarstrom, an electrical engineer deeply involved in Cold War technology, highlights the period’s challenges, noting, “We were under MAD at this time, so if the Soviets had a way to ...
A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.
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11 Chilling Facts About the Cold War
Moscow’s success in the early stages of the Space Race was astonishing, considering how far it lagged behind the U.S. when it came to developing technology for nuclear weapons or microchips.
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New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West
Sanger, a veteran reporter, tells a familiar story about how the hopeful era that followed the Cold War gave way to renewed great-power competition.
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Stranger Things: The Soviet Plot and AI Arms Race, a Cold War AI Allegory
The Cold War, a decades-long geopolitical standoff between United States and the Soviet Union, is one of the most defining ...