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The pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet
When pilot Viktor Belenko defected, he did so in a mysterious Soviet plane – the MiG-25. Stephen Dowling looks at its far-reaching impact.
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Davy Crockett: King of the Atomic Frontier
On 17 July 1962, a caravan of scientists, military men, and dignitaries crossed the remote desert of southern Nevada to witness an historic event. Among the crowd were VIPs such as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and presidential adviser General Maxwell D. Taylor who had come to observe the “Little Feller I” test shot, the final phase of Operation Sunbeam… By Alan Bellows.
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Joel Whitney by Rob Spillman
“If we know the government is funding the arts or funding journalism, then it behooves us to put structures in place that will allow for them to be fearless.”
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A Star in a Bottle
An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out. By Raffi Khatchadourian. (Mar. 3, 2014)
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This Russian Nuclear Submarine Made Some Scary History (It Sank Not Once, but Twice)
The Cold War saw numerous submarine accidents, especially on the Soviet side. For much of its existence, the USSR tried to maintain a world-beating military with a second-rate economy. Throughout the era, the Soviets struggled to maintain their magnificent weapons of war. In the effort to close this gap, the crews of Soviet submarines often paid with their lives. But only one submarine had the poor luck to sink twice.
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‘Spy vs. Spy’ Was The Subversive Brainchild of An Exiled Cuban Illustrator
One day a Cuban illustrator walked unannounced into the MAD Magazine offices, and the rest is history. By Eric Grundhauser.
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The New Red Scare
Reviving the art of threat inflation. By Andrew Cockburn.
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‘We are poorer for the things you are looking at in these pictures’
A photographer travels the globe visiting defunct cold war sites. By Kenneth Dickerman. Photos By Matt Slaby
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Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)
Yuri Bezmenov (alias Tomas Schuman), a Soviet KGB defector, explains in detail his scheme for the KGB process of subversion and takeover of target societies at a lecture in Los Angeles, 1983.
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Mechanical Movements of the Cold War
How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches. By Hunter Oatman-Stanford.
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Diving into the unthinkable cold truths of a nuclear war
Last Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump issued a few statements (guess where) about America's military, with this statement as a kicker: "The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its sense regarding nukes." Though much remains to be seen about how Trump's tweets will actually translate into policy, it seems likely that nuclear war will be back on the table. Are we going to roll back decades of policy and technology to return to the Atomic Age?
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The Perils of Russophobia
Anyone too young to remember HUAC and the destruction the Cold War wrought should study up. We are a few short steps away from both. By Patrick Lawrence.
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WashingtonsBlog: What The Russian Hacking Report Doesn’t Say
Today, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI released a report alleging Russian hacking. The report itself is only five and a half pages long in large print...
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Something About This Russia Story Stinks
Nearly a decade and a half after the Iraq-WMD faceplant, the American press is again asked to co-sign a dubious intelligence assessment. By Matt Taibbi.
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Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again
False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid. By Glenn Greenwald.
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Does Anyone Know What to Make of Obama’s Sanctions?
The president’s move to punish Russia has scrambled partisan lines. By David A. Graham.
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DefenseOne: Weaponized Narrative Is the New Battlespace
And the U.S. is in the unaccustomed position of being seriously behind its adversaries. By Brad Allenby and Joel Garreau, co-directors of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative.
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Bill Perry Is Terrified. Why Aren’t You?
How an 89-year-old cold warrior became America’s nuclear conscience. By John F. Harris and Bryan Bender.
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WaPo Spreading Own Falsehoods Shows Real Power of Fake News
In which the snake begins eating itself. By Adam Johnson.
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The Age of Great Expectations and the Great Void
History After “the End of History.” The fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989 abruptly ended one historical era and inaugurated another… By Andrew J. Bacevich.
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