Cold War

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• 9/15/19
  

  The Stasi's Cold War Espionage Campaign Inside the Church

  by Elisabeth Braw

  How the Stasi infiltrated churches to suppress dissent in the German Democratic Republic.

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• SOURCE: Des Moines Register
  August 27, 2019
  

  Seventy years after the Cold War began, the world faces an escalating nuclear threat

  by William Lambers

  The first Soviet atomic bomb test, on Aug. 29, 1949, spread political and psychological fallout that has been with us ever since.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/9/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Documents on the First Soviet Nuclear Test Offering New Information on Beginning of Nuclear Arms Race

  by William Burr

  The newly declassified documents reveal the Soviet atomic project posed a major challenge to U.S. intelligence and expands our knowledge of the role of German scientists in advancing the Soviet nuclear program.

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• 9/8/19
  

  The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Trollope Ploy Myth

  by Sheldon M. Stern

  What we often get wrong about the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/30/19
  

  Why Soviets Sent Dogs to Space While Americans Used Primates

  The goal for the Cold War rivals was the same: to prove that animals could survive in orbit so that people could, too. But why did the Soviets use dogs, while the Americans used primates?

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• 8/26/19
  

  50 Years ago, the KGB weaponized the fire at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque to sow discord between Israel and the United States

  by Oren Nahari

  This discovery comes from a document obtained by historians Isabella Ginor  and Gideon Remez. A rent-a-crowd protest in India was aimed to affect the Egyptian-Israeli War of Attrition.

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/24/19
  

  Is Capitalism or Communism Better for Women? How the Kitchen Debate Gave a New Meaning to the Cold War 'Home Front'

   In American and Soviet homes, the capitalism-communism divide was a topic of conversation at many a kitchen table — and, most famously, in one model kitchen.

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• 6/23/19
  

  Wealth, Access, and Archival Fetishism in the New Cold War History

  by Benjamin R. Young

  Cold War historians are only reinforcing elitist hierarchies if they continue to almost singularly hold up multinational research in previously unexplored archives as the gold standard of quality scholarship. 

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Cold War Spy and CIA Master of Disguise Writing the History of CIA Tactics in the Cold War

  by Aleisha Smith

  An interview with Jonna Mendez. A former Chief of Disguise with 27 years in the CIA, she discusses her latest book (co-authored with her husband Tony Mendez), her experience in the CIA, and her role at the Spy Museum.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  6/10/19
  

  The Cold War's Global Legacy of Misinformation

  by Jennifer M. Miller

  Today's deep apprehension about the consequences of misinformation and foreign subversion can make it easy to forget that such fears are not new. 

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• 5/23/19
  

  The Fall of Communism in TV’s The Weissensee Saga

  by Walter G. Moss

  The most impressive educational aspect of The Weissensee Saga is that it presents a realistic and convincing portrait of the differing lives and reactions of East German individuals in the final decade of the GDR’s existence.

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• SOURCE: Lobelog
  5/21/19
  

  The Real Reason Iran’s Hardliners Don’t Want To Talk To America

  by Shireen T. Hunter

  Tehran’s reluctance to engage in direct talks with America at a normal state-to-state level within a bilateral framework long predates the Trump administration. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/21/19
  

  Living in a Nation of Political Narcissists

  by Tom Engelhardt

  American election exceptionalism from 1945-2019.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/17/19
  

  Mayor and ‘Foreign Minister’: How Bernie Sanders Brought the Cold War to Burlington

  Referendums, rallies, a trip to Nicaragua — all were part of his effort to infuse left-wing activism into local politics.

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• 4/7/19
  

  The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

  by James Thornton Harris

  The Ghost, a new biography of Angleton by Jefferson Morley, a Washington journalist, provides an intriguing look at this powerful, enigmatic Cold Warrior.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 4/2/19
  

  How the U.S.-Russian Relationship Went Bad

  by William J. Burns

  An American diplomat tells the inside story of Yeltsin, Putin, and opportunities lost.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/2/19
  

  The Island That Changed History

  by Sergey Radchenko

  A 1969 border clash between Moscow and Beijing pushed the two apart, and opened the door for Nixon to go to China.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/26/19
  

  2020 Will See a Monumental Clash Over America’s Place in the World

  by Stephen Wertheim

  Is it time for the U.S. to confront other great powers — or to retreat?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/19
  

  At Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War History Confronts Crass Commercialism

  GWU Professor Hope Harrison is quoted extensively in the piece. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/24/19
  

  Amnesia in Washington

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Afghanistan and the Implosion of America