The Media's New Cold War An essential element of the last, fortyyear cold war was manichean, double-standard thinking on both sides that relentlessly vilified the other, http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050131&s=cohen
Nuclear Age Timeline Nuclear Age Timeline, The timeline traces the nuclear age from the discovery of xrays and radioactivity to the explosion of the first atomic bomb through the cold war to its thaw and the cleanup of the nuclear weapons complex. http://www.em.doe.gov/timeline/
This Day In History the Berlin Wall was finally opened and then demolished. For many observers, this action was the signal that the cold war was finally coming to an end. http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=coldwar
Academy Books: Violent Conflict In The 21st Century Collection of essays including 'The New Evils of the 21st Century' by Robert D. Kaplan; 'Weapons of Mass Destruction and Physical Heritage of the cold war' by W.K.H. Panofsky and 'Group Loyalty and Ethnic Violence' by Donald L. Horowitz. PDF http://www.amacad.org/publications/violent.aspx
Extractions: Table of Contents Order from the Academy Will key political events of the 21st century blindside modern experts? Will the most serious threats to society be anticipated or even recognized by those who witnessed the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union? To what degree is our experience with deterrence, arms races and alliance structures relevant to current destabilizing forces? This collection of essays deals with these timely questions. The essays were prepared for a December 1997 conference of that name sponsored by the Midwest Consortium for International Security Studies (MCISS), a program of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They probe how international security studies must redefine its concerns in order to remain pertinent; for example, how might illicit traffic in nuclear materials or catastrophic damage to national infrastructure cause large-scale violence? Several papers extend this analysis to study how violence may be mitigated using, for example, an improved understanding of social identity and group loyalty or the creation of a transboundary legal order.
Extractions: New Tools for Researchers W hen the World Wide Web first emerged, less than ten years ago, its arrival was accompanied by predictions (and on the part of some, fears) that libraries would soon become obsolete. Clearly, that has not occurred, nor is it likely to occur in the near future; however, libraries have been dramatically changed by the advent of new technologies. New databases and increasingly sophisticated search engines have transformed how historians search for even traditional print sources. These databases range from the online catalogue of one's own library or (more frequently) consortia of libraries, to the vast storehouse of records available through the Library of Congress or such organizations as the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) ABC-CLIO's large historical databases, previously available on CD, may now be searched online at subscribing institutions. ("Cold War" produced 3,183 hits in
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev A brief biography of the late General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His political career marked some of the most critical events of the cold war. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7477/brezhnev.htm
Extractions: Get your own Free Webpage Biography Leonid Brezhnev, b. Dec. 19, 1906, was the leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death on Nov. 10, 1982. A native of Russified eastern Ukraine, he rose steadily in party ranks during the 1930s and in 1939 was appointed propaganda secretary of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee. During World War II, he worked at the front as a political commissar attached to the armed forces, becoming a major general in 1944. In the postwar years Brezhnev worked under Nikita KHRUSHCHEV in Ukraine, later serving as Communist party chief in Moldavia (1950-53) and Kazakhstan (1954-56). He was elevated to the highest political body in the USSR (the Presidium, later called the Politburo) once Khrushchev's political opponents had been defeated (1957). For four years (1960-64) he served as the titular head of the USSR. After helping to oust Khrushchev in 1964, Brezhnev became first secretary (later general secretary) of the Communist party. Any suggestions for this page can be sent to ME Get your own Free Webpage
Cold War, Hot Nukes: An Online Exhibit A photo gallery and online exhibit documenting the projects, propaganda and scorched earth of US atomic weapons tests during the 1940s and 50s. http://www.parascope.com/gallery/galleryitems/hotNukes/
Extractions: When they showed up about six months ago, I had forgotten I'd even ordered them. The "Department of Energy" return address gave it away pretty quick, though. A newly-released batch of declassified atomic weapons test films had arrived on videotape, courtesy of the DOE. In this line of work, you understand, it can often be useful to have such material on hand. The DOE released these films under its " Historical Nuclear Weapons Test Films " program, which was established to declassify and release some 6,500 celluloid reels of U.S. atomic weapons test footage. These films, never before seen by the American public, are currently being transferred to VHS videotape at the DOE's Albuquerque Operations Office. In addition to the videotapes, various MPEG and RealVideo clips are available on the program's web page . So far, a total of 72 of these films have been made available, with more to come "based on the public's expressed interest." (If you want to see more, be sure to drop the DOE a line and encourage the agency to continue releasing more of these films.) We're not talking about your ordinary, run-of-the-test-range mushroom clouds here, either. Entwined into the predictable spectacle of apocalyptic fireballs is a surreal tapestry of A-bomb propaganda which sought to reassure viewers that atomic warfare was no different than any other kind of warfare, as long as you "treat it with respect and observe a few safety precautions."
CNN Cold War - Profile: Kim Il Sung Profile from the online companion to CNN's documentary series cold war. http://clinton.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/kim/
Extractions: a 4.0 browser and requires javascript Born into a peasant family on April 15, 1912, in Mangyondae, Korea, Kim Il Sung was still a child when his parents left Japan-occupied Korea for Manchuria. There Kim attended Chinese schools. In 1932, he became the leader of a small group of Korean partisans, which he led in various raids against Japanese outposts in Korea. In 1941, Kim fled Manchuria for the Soviet Far East. He next received military training in the Soviet Union. In 1945, Kim returned to his homeland as a major in the Soviet army. The Soviets put him in charge of the formation of a provisional system of government in Soviet-occupied Korea. In 1948, he became the first premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Strongly favoring national unification by military means, Kim's regime waged a guerrilla war against the South, and with strong Soviet support built up a large military. In 1950 Kim managed to get Stalin 's permission for an invasion of the South, which he launched on June 25. But it was only thanks to a massive Chinese intervention that Kim's regime survived the U.S.-led counteroffensive in fall 1950. In 1953, Kim and his Soviet and Chinese guardians chose to settle for half the country, but Kim never accepted the division of his country and until the end of his life continued efforts to overthrow the South Korean republic and kill its rulers. After 1953, Kim created an austere, militarized and highly regimented North Korean society that worshipped him as a deified leader. While officially extolling self-reliance, North Korea in reality relied heavily on Soviet and Chinese economic and military support. Kim's North Korea pursued many independent initiatives toward developing nations, often with the objective to undermine positions of the West. Since the 1970s, North Korea has been a major arms supplier to countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria.
BELLA'S PAGE The anticommunist sentiment that characterized the cold war and (Larsen,24) The cold war started to develop between the United States and the Soviet http://www.ncs.pvt.k12.va.us/ryerbury/2ros/2ros.htm
The Cold War Includes history and psychological examinations of this period. http://www.angelfire.com/bc3/coldwar/index.html
Extractions: Search: Lycos Angelfire Dukes of Hazzard Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Click Here Welcome Welcome to The Cold War, and information website about the Cold War. This site is only at its early stages. If you are interested in the CW please check back in mid-April 2002, when it should be completed. (C) Nokiset ... bc3/coldwar
Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis cold war CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. According to Nikita Khrushchev s memoirs, in May 1962 he conceived the idea of placing intermediaterange nuclear missiles http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/colc.html
Extractions: Revelations from the Russian Archives COLD WAR: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS According to Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, in May 1962 he conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba as a means of countering an emerging lead of the United States in developing and deploying strategic missiles. He also presented the scheme as a means of protecting Cuba from another United States-sponsored invasion, such as the failed attempt at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. After obtaining Fidel Castro's approval, the Soviet Union worked quickly and secretly to build missile installations in Cuba. On October 16, President John Kennedy was shown reconnaissance photographs of Soviet missile installations under construction in Cuba. After seven days of guarded and intense debate in the United States administration, during which Soviet diplomats denied that installations for offensive missiles were being built in Cuba, President Kennedy, in a televised address on October 22, announced the discovery of the installations and proclaimed that any nuclear missile attack from Cuba would be regarded as an attack by the Soviet Union and would be responded to accordingly. He also imposed a naval quarantine on Cuba to prevent further Soviet shipments of offensive military weapons from arriving there. Kruschev letter to President Kennedy Translation of letter Go to the Next Section of the Soviet Archives exhibit Return to the Table of contents for the Soviet Archives exhibit Go to the Library of Congress Home Page Library of Congress
The Atomic Age: A Brief Overview An overview of the Manhattan Project, the use of the bomb, the development of the cold war and the physics of nuclear weapons. Includes photographs and a bibliography. http://www.turkeyland.net/atom.html
Extractions: The Atomic Age A Brief Overview The rapid advancements in science and technology during the nineteenth century foreshadowed the great leaps accomplished during the atomic age. Many of these great leaps took place in the realm of nuclear physics. Although there were many extraordinary feats, the atomic bomb topped off all technological achievements. The development of a viable nuclear weapon spawned what is today known as "The Atomic Age." Sections Send any questions or comments regarding this site to: atomicage@turkeyland.net This specific page was last updated on: 01/04/2000 at 10:15pm EST
Uncle Sam: How The Cold War Worked According to the conventional view, the cold war was a conflict between two The cold war provided that too. No matter how outlandish the idea that the http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-3-1.html
Extractions: Previous section Next section Contents Archive ... ZNet Despite much pretense, national security has not been a major concern of US planners and elected officials. The historical record reveals this clearly. Few serious analysts took issue with George Kennan's position that "it is not Russian military power which is threatening us, it is Russian political power" (October 1947); or with President Eisenhower's consistent view that the Russians intended no military conquest of Western Europe and that the major role of NATO was to "convey a feeling of confidence to exposed populations, a confidence which will make them sturdier, politically, in their opposition to Communist inroads." Similarly, the US dismissed possibilities for peaceful resolution of the Cold War conflict, which would have left the "political threat" intact. In his history of nuclear weapons, McGeorge Bundy writes that he is "aware of no serious contemporary proposal...that ballistic missiles should somehow be banned by agreement before they were ever deployed," even though these were the only potential military threat to the US. It was always the "political" threat of so-called "Communism" that was the primary concern. (Recall that "Communism" is a broad term, and includes all those with the "ability to get control of mass movements....something we have no capacity to duplicate," as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles privately complained to his brother Allen, CIA director, "The poor people are the ones they appeal to," he added, "and they have always wanted to plunder the rich." So they must be overcome, to protect our doctrine that the rich should plunder the poor.)
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A Copyright Cold War? This paper offers critical analysis of recent discourse on peerto-peer file transfers, illustrating the degree to which participants in the debates over http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_7/logie/
Extractions: In/conclusion In a now infamous New York Times article from January, 2002, Jack Valenti, President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), likened his organization’s efforts in opposing peer-to-peer downloads of motion pictures via the Internet to a military engagement. Valenti said, "We’re fighting our own terrorist war," adding, "the great moat that protects us, and it is only temporary, is lack of broadband access" [ ]. Valenti’s remarks position his industry as both a victim and a target, and span centuries of military history. The timing of Valenti’s comments makes it clear that his reference to a "terrorist war" was meant to be understood in the context of the United States’ response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Valenti was inviting readers of a newspaper serving the city hardest hit by these attacks to understand the film industry as having endured a parallel trauma. By contrast, Valenti’s description of the industry as temporarily protected by a "great moat," positions the MPAA as, at best, a medieval protectorate, and at worst, the sort of plutocratic castle-keep regularly targeted by Robin Hood. Business Week Online reported that "box office receipts are 21 percent ahead of last year’s pace" [
Cold War Exile: The Unclosed Case Of Maurice Halperin The cold war was in full force. McCarthyism was at its peak. Caught up in the rapids of history, Maurice Halperin s life spun out of control. http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/spring1995/kirschn.htm
Extractions: In 1953 Maurice Halperin was called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to defend himself on charges of espionage. He was accused of having supplied Soviet sources with classified material from the Office of Strategic Services while he was an employee during World War II. The Cold War was in full force. McCarthyism was at its peak. Caught up in the rapids of history, Maurice Halperin's life spun out of control. Denying the charges but knowing he could never fully clear his name, Halperin fled to Mexico and then, to avoid extradition, to Moscow. Among the friends he made there were British spy Donald MacLean and Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara. Disenchanted with socialism in the Soviet Union, he accepted Guevara's invitation to come to Havana in 1962. There he worked for Castro's government for five years before political tension forced him to leave for Vancouver, Canada, where he now resides. Was Halperin a spy or a scapegoat? Was he a victim of Red- baiting or a onetime Communist espionage agent who eventually lost faith in Communism? Halperin's accuser was Elizabeth Bentley, a confessed Soviet courier who accused more than one hundred Americans of spying. Yet Bentley had no proof, and Halperin continues to maintain his innocence. One of them was lying. As Kirschner unravels the engrossing facts of the caseutilizing FBI files and dozens of interviews, including extensive interviews with Halperin himselfthe reader becomes the investigator in a riveting real-life spy mystery. Along the way Kirschner offers new material on the OSS and further disturbing information about J. Edgar Hoover's use of his considerable power.
Extractions: skip to content Advanced Search Course Home Syllabus Calendar ... Cold War Science, Spring 2004 Energy Information Administration bibliography The history and legacy of the Cold War on science is examined in a seminar setting for this course, looking predominantly at examples in the United States. Topics range from exploring scientists' new political roles after World War II as elite policy-makers in the nuclear age to their victimization by domestic anti-Communism. The course next examines the changing institutions in which the physical, biological, and social sciences were conducted during the postwar decades, investigating the links between institutions and epistemology. The course closes by considering the place of science in the post-Cold-War era. Instructor:
Extractions: GameSpot GameFAQs MP3.com TV.com ... Publisher: GMX Media Developer: Walkon Games Genre: Strategy Release Date: GameSpace Review Previews News Downloads Movies Cheats Check Prices This real-time strategy game is set during the Cold War and features eight playable factions. Category: Strategy Real-Time Historic Tech Information Cold War Conflict Essentials Demo This is a playable demo for Cold War Conflicts, a real-time strategy game set in the cold war era. The demo gives players access to the Korea and U.S. campaigns. Most Recent GameSpot Updates date type description Download Demo Screens 30 new screens News GMX signs Cold War Conflict for UK Updates From the Web date site name / link article / score Gamespy GameDaily Worth Playing Videogameslife ... Gamer Feed The links above are provided as a convenience only; the related sites are not affiliated with GameSpot, and we do not endorse or sanction their content. See all updates from the Web at The Company Line date type description Fact Sheet Cold War Conflicts Company Line Press Release GMX Releases Cold War Conflicts Demo Company lines represent the views of publishers or developers; GameSpot does not create or endorse this content.
