Sweden to issue another update of a Cold War-era civil emergency advice booklet later this month – new version adapted to better reflect today's security policy reality ~society politics Article 321 words 8 votes
Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg's Cold War spy case ~humanities.history Article 1221 words 17 votes
Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK ~humanities.history Video 39:41 8 votes
US nuclear missile program set the launch code to "00000000" during the cold war ~engineering Article 1556 words 37 votes
Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage ~humanities.history Article 570 words 12 votes
What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything ~science psychology Video 27:19 32 votes
The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka ~humanities.history Video 19:20, published Oct 25 2023 9 votes
Windowless skyscrapers. These often misunderstood structures play mysterious roles in our urban landscape. In this video we explore the purposes and intriguing stories of these architectural anomalies ~design architecture Video 13:50, published Nov 30 2023 12 votes
President John F. Kennedy's "Peace Speech" ~humanities.history Video 27:07, published Jun 6 2013 5 votes
Camp Century - The Hidden City Beneath the Ice ~engineering Video 51:59, published Apr 24 2023 9 votes
Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor ~humanities.history Video 16:09, published Oct 29 2019 8 votes
Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers ~humanities.history Article 4568 words, published Jul 18 2015 7 votes
When Tintin entered the Cold War. As a spy thriller, 1954’s The Calculus Affair was far ahead of its time. ~comics Article 1486 words, published Apr 27 2023 5 votes
Top-secret atomic bunker has opened to the public in Denmark – built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum ~humanities.history Article 1431 words 6 votes
As it joins NATO, Finland recorded its highest year-on-year increase in military spending since 1962 – global military spending rose by 3.7% in real terms ~society politics Article 6 votes
Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’ ~humanities.history Article 1453 words 2 votes
The dark side of .io: How the UK is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal ~tech internet Article 1482 words, published Jun 30 2014 6 votes
How did the USSR react to JFK's assassination? ~humanities.history Video 2:57, published Jun 3 2020 5 votes
Animated history: Life in East Germany ~humanities.history Video 14:14, published Oct 23 2020 3 votes
The creation, history, post-WW2 socialist economy and break-up of Yugoslavia explained ~humanities.history Video 29:24, published Aug 23 2020 6 votes
Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain? | Map Men ~humanities.history Video 8:49, published Jan 11 2021 12 votes
The Sino-Soviet split: How did Soviet Russia and China become enemies? ~humanities.history Video 13:12, published Aug 15 2020 3 votes
Being Finnish: A Guide For Soviet Spies – An archived booklet reveals how communist spooks were instructed to blend in with Finnish locals ~humanities.history Link 11 votes
Chinese foreign minister warns US against taking the countries ‘to the brink of a new Cold War’ ~news china usa politics Article 701 words 10 votes
"Missile Gap" by C. Stross (medium-length scifi novella) ~books science fiction short stories Link 7 votes
There may never ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov ~humanities.history Video 41:38, published Jul 7 2019 7 votes
The shoals of Ukraine - Where American illusions and great-power politics collide ~humanities.history Article 4324 words 5 votes
Sweden's navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack – seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia ~news sweden.musko politics russia Article 661 words 8 votes
Camp Century – Secret Cold War base shifts through Greenland ice ~humanities.history Article 559 words 6 votes
NASA reopens Apollo mission control room that once landed men on Moon ~space Article 1491 words 11 votes
Scenes from the new Cold War unfolding at the top of the world ~enviro climate change Article 1338 words 8 votes
Three myths most Americans believe (Japanese surrender in WW2, Cold War, nuclear bomb threat) ~humanities.history Video 29:09, published May 22 2016 7 votes