It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. In the late 1950s,…
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Nestled in the shadows of secrecy, Ozersk, also known as City 40, is a hidden…
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In 1978 a Soviet reconnaissance satellite, Kosmos 965 met a dramatic end. Re-entering Earth’s atmosphere…
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Nestled beneath the icy expanse of the Greenland ice sheet lies a chilling reminder of…
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The Cold War dominated the 20th century. Between 1947 and 1991, 44 years and nine…
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Between 1946 and 1991, the United States, the Soviet Union, and allies on both sides…
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There is something particularly insidious and terrifying about nuclear fallout, and radiation sickness. It is…
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The Cold War had many facets, and the decades-long conflict between the two post-WW2 superpowers…
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Scientists across the world expressed real concerns at the first nuclear tests. Aside from the…
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The word “nuclear” is one of the most loaded and controversial in the modern age.…
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Douglas MacArthur, General of the US Army and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, Governor…
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In the late 1950s and 1960s, the aviation industry was obsessed with developing supersonic transport…
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The Castle Bravo test was a nuclear weapons experiment that went disastrously wrong, unleashing a…
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The dark history of the Cold War is filled with secrets and lies. Hidden experiments,…
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The Cold War, which ran between roughly the end of the Second World War in…