Cold War

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Neil Armstrong stands by the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the first walk on the moon in 1969.
Fly Me to the Moon
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland
From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Mushroom cloud over the Bikini Atoll
Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War
The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb
Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape
A Church in Novgorod Russia
Russia and the World
A photograph from the tumultuous German-Czech border in 1938 during World War II. The Sudetenland had long been a hotspot of contact between the two groups.
The Space In Between
A memorial to Holocaust victims in front of a Jewish cemetery.
A Postcard from Berlin: Confronting a Troubled Past
A scene from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution
Mata Hari (1876-1917).
Top Ten Origins: Spies, Lies, and Moles: Oh My!
Joseph Stalin
Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin
NATO and Russia in close proximity again. A U.S. F-22A Raptor accompanies a Russian Tu-95 near the Alaskan NORAD Region airspace, 2007.
NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War
ELAS Guerrillas, 1943
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
The logo of Solidarność painted on an overturned Soviet era T-55 in Prague in 1990
Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution
Marker: "90 Miles to Cuba. Southernmost Point, Continental USA. Key West, FL"
Rethinking Cuba Libre
Cover of The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte.
…And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: A History of Contingency and Happenstance
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald
1989: The Year That Changed It All
Reinforcing Omaha Beach with men and equipment
Remembering D-Day: 10 Important Facts to Know
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Team photo of a soccer team
The Politics of International Sport
Photo of a deer
4/24/14: Memories of the Iron Curtain
a man standing on a large bomb
Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb
The futuristic National Security Operations Center occupies a floor of the National Security Agency's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.
America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
The sickle and hammer on a Soviet Union flag from the 1930s.
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)