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My good old buddies Cold War Kids just recommended this band to me, ha! We Barbarians http://bit.ly/29cGBX
TheNickHayes (Nick Hayes) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:29:40 -0000
My good old buddies Cold War Kids just recommended this band to me, ha! We Barbarians http://bit.ly/29cGBX
@mahaganimami u r right...i dont feel like gearing up for war in the cold weather gear
twinghost03 (Duan Freeman) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:25:40 -0000
@mahaganimami u r right...i dont feel like gearing up for war in the cold weather gear
Is now reading John LeCarre's "The Russia House" dammit, the cold war was fun unlike today... Ahh the winds of change...
g6vys (shane g6vys) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:22:58 -0000
Is now reading John LeCarre's "The Russia House" dammit, the cold war was fun unlike today... Ahh the winds of change...
Am I the only one who looks back on history and realizes that Rocky ended the cold war?
Feelz_Good (Nick) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:45:15 -0000
Am I the only one who looks back on history and realizes that Rocky ended the cold war?
at the age of 83, Fidel Castro has survived the Cold War, 10 US presidents and over 600 assassination attempts...
studiob2sj (seth barber) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:44:28 -0000
at the age of 83, Fidel Castro has survived the Cold War, 10 US presidents and over 600 assassination attempts...
Ugh. It's too early to be up on a Saturday. All this coffee and cold war kids does help though! (:
Emzwk7 (Emma C) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:11:21 -0000
Ugh. It's too early to be up on a Saturday. All this coffee and cold war kids does help though! (:

 

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CNN - Cold War - A documentary with interactive maps, archival footage, the key players, recently declassified documents, and touring the cold war capitals through 3-D images.

500 Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union - Examines the last few years of the Cold War, with a particular focus on Ronald Reagan's policy towards the Soviet Union. Includes pictures and a comprehensive speech section.
Meta Description: [ President Reagan is examined in this web site, with a particular focus on his policy towards the Soviet Union. Includes an analysis of Ronald Reagan's political character, arms control, SDI or Star Wars, and the Reagan Doctrine. Includes a speech archive, and a comprehensive links section. ]

A Bipolar World - The Cold War - Provides links to documents on the origins of the Cold War, the Berlin Crises, the Cuban Crises, periods of East-West detente, and information on Cold War leaders.

A Secret Landscape - National-security Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) infrastructure. Focuses on ad hoc C4I sites.
Meta Description: [ The Cold War national-security command, control, communications, and intelligence infrastructure of the Washington DC region ]

At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 - A CIA document including links to full-text intelligence reports on events during the final years the Soviet Union and the Cold War. Includes a brief historical overview and extensive references.

Bay of Pigs Report - A report on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Analysis of the origins, planning, execution, and ultimate failure of the American operation to bring down Cuban dictator of Fidel Castro. Links to related sites.

Cold War - Includes history and psychological examinations of this period.

Cold War - Discusses key Cold War leaders and Soviet and American Cold War Policies. Coverage of the impact of the Cold War on technological development, international relations and conflicts. Also includes a Cold War game and links to related websites.

Cold War - Timeline - Interactive containing events with information and images.

Cold War at a Glance - Lists of events and incidents organised in timeline and region.

Cold War Guide - Provides accurate and handy information about events, people, states, agencies and services of the Cold War. Also includes various data, essays, texts and useful links.
Meta Description: [ Provide accurate and handy information about events, people, states, agencies and services of the Cold War. Also includes various data, essays, texts and useful links. ]

Cold War International History Project - Hosts hundreds of previously inaccessible documents dealing with the Cold War.
Meta Description: [ The Cold War International History Project aims to disseminate new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on ]

Cold War Museum - Presents essay-like articles, commenting selected events of the Cold War in a narrative, chronological way, accessible through a timeline. Also photo presentations in a museum-like way.
Meta Description: [ The Cold War Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to education, preservation, and research on the global, ideological, and political confrontations between East and West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Virtual exhibits, photos, and resources are onlin... ]

Cold War Project - A miscellaneous collection of information, documents and photographs. Produced by Videofact
Meta Description: [ Cold War Project, designed to facilitate continued study of the Cold War era ]

Cold War: Postwar Estrangement - A historical exhibit of contentious Soviet-American relations before and during the Cold War. Includes links to Russian language documents relating the Soviet views of the Cold War.

Grenzer.com - A historical survey of East German and US border operations along the Iron Curtain from 1945-1989. Includes chronology, technology and operations, review of units and guards, and submitted war stories.
Meta Description: [ Grenzer.com is the place to go to get an indepth view of the Iron Curtain, East German border guards, and U.S. border operations. ]

Harvard Project on Cold War Studies (HPCWS) - Features declassified documents, information about The Journal of Cold War Studies, a digital multimedia archive, and related links.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies ]

Instruments of Statecraft - Study of U.S. guerilla warfare, counter insurgency, and counter terrorism, from 1940 to 1990.

Notes on Nationalism - An essay by George Orwell in 1945.

Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact - Provides access to declassified documentation and information about the development of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, their threat perceptions, and their military plans.
Meta Description: [ The Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP, the former Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact), provides new scholarly perspectives on contemporary international history by collecting, publishing, and interpreting formerly secret governmental documents. A complementar... ]

Political Writings of George Orwell - Essays, newspaper columns, letters and editorials from 1943 - 1947.

Politics and the English Language - An essay by George Orwell in 1946.

Russian Arms, Military Technology, Analysis of Russia's Military Forces - Warfare.ru is comprehensive online catalog of Russian arms and military technology currently comprising of 750 weapons in 93 categories. It has some 1600 images, 140+ video files, and 2000+ text pages.
Meta Description: [ Warfare.ru is comprehensive online catalog of Russian arms and military technology currently comprising of 750 weapons in 93 categories. It has some 1800 images, 250+ video files, and 2000+ text pages. ]

Soviet Archives: Entrance Room - An online exhibit on how Soviet-American relations were conducted between the two governments and the two societies. Also discusses inner workings of the Soviet system of government.

Stanislav Petrov Averts a Worldwide Nuclear War - Bright Star Sound - The story of Stanislav Petrov, a Russian officer whose refusal to launch a nuclear strike, in response to a false report of a US attack, averted a nuclear war in 1983.
Meta Description: [ Stanislav Petrov averted a worldwide nuclear war in 1983, preventing what could have become the tragedy of the ages. See and listen to this remarkable account at www.brightstarsound.com. ]

Thaw in the Cold War: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg - Information on a 1959 Soviet-American summit and how President Eisenhower's brand of diplomacy led to a temporary easing of Cold War tensions. Includes documents from the meeting, a small image gallery, and links to further sources.
Meta Description: [ Use this classroom-ready lesson plan to delve into a superower meeting and discover how President Eisehower's brand of diplomacy at this Pennsylvania farm tempriarly easted tenions of the Cold War. ]

The Cold War - A summary of the Cold War.
Meta Description: [ A summary of Cold War ]

The Diefenbunker - Canada's Cold War Museum - The Diefenbunker was built in 1959-61 to house Canadian leaders during a nuclear attack but now serves as Canada's Cold War Museum. Includes Diefenbunker history, facts, virtual tour, and trivia.

The Flying Crowbar - At the dawn of the atomic age, scientists began work on what might have been the nastiest weapon ever conceived.

The National Archives Learning Curve | Cold War - Narrative answers to the most common questions of the Cold War, why did it start, who started it; how the common believes are reflected in what really happened.
Meta Description: [ Cold War uses an extensive range of original source material including documents, photographs, posters and video. Constructed around a set of themes, each with case studies, this is a unique opportunity to work with raw primary material on the Cold War. ]

The Privacy War - One Congressman, J. Edgar Hoover and the Fight for the Fourth Amendment - Book about the collection of illegally obtained private information of U.S. citizens in the name of Cold-War national security.

War of Ideas: A History of the Cold War - Includes biographies of the principal Cold Warriors in the West and East, detailed reports on the different facets of the Cold War, a chronology of major Cold War events, and links to external resources. Also has a Cold War game and a trivia section.