The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads the Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects. We have undertaken an intensive effort to identify and catalog relevant historical documents from DOE's 3.2 million cubic feet of records scattered across the country. Internet access to these resources is ...

News and Updates: Kampany archiv Chief Archivist Position For CEU students: Research opportunities Support for Research on Recent History On-line Guide to OSA Help Archives of Kosova Call for Action OSA Internship Program Call for applications Updated: Special Collections Human Rights Archives Warsaw Pact Archive New Exhibitions See What's New page for more news and updates Non-Discrimination ...

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 online source for Cold War research and history.

Web Credits THE FILM & MORE | SPECIAL FEATURE | TIMELINE | MAPS PEOPLE & EVENTS | TEACHER'S GUIDE THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | KIDS | FEEDBACK | SEARCH WGBH | PBS Online New content 1999 PBS/WGBH. This Web site was produced for PBS Online by WGBH. Web site 1998 WGBH Educational Foundation. ...

Stalin's enigmatic director of the Soviet project to build the atomic bomb.

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy The Cold War Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993, by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, Washington DC: Congressional Research Service -- Library of Congress -- October 7, 1993 The Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center The Harvard ...

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy Cuban Missile Crisis Havana Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, July 21-30, 1940 Rio De Janeiro Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security, August 15-September 2, 1947 Bogota Conference of American States, Charter of the Organization of American States; March 30-May 2, 1948 Waging Peace in the ...

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Diplomatic Papers of the United States dealing with relations with the Soviet Union particularly with the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

Welcome! See TIME LIFE Books: A Man on the Moon 30th Anniversary Commemorative Book Set Sputnik sent back the first signals from the cosmos and the space race was on. From the archives of LIFE comes one of the most momentous chapters in the Cold War and a giant leap for mankind. Editor: Seth Goddard Art Direction & Design: Carlos Pisco Producer: Elizabeth Owen Photo Research: Neal Jackson Photo ...

Cold War Bibliography (Revised 2-24-2000) The Cold War has generated an enormous body of scholarship. Here we have organized some of it under several conceptual headings. Teachers seeking to add Cold War issues (especially related to science & technology) to their repertoires and young scholars exploring new research areas are encouraged to see the annotated bibliography sections first. In them ...

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The Berlin Airlift Veterans Association is a Non Profit organization dedicated to preserving the Legacy of the Berlin Airlift, The Greatest Humanitarian Mission in the world and the First battle of the Cold War!

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History Staff Center for the Study of Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency 1999 At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 Table of Contents Foreword Preface The Road to Malta The Empire Strikes Back The Empire Collapes A Battle to the Death The Cold War Ends The Estimates and the End of the Cold War Chronology 1989 1990 1991 Appendix Documents: A ...

FAS Homepage | Intelligence | IMINT Gallery | Index | Search | Join FAS Cuba Cuban Missile Crisis In the fall of 1962, there were unconfirmed reports that the Soviets were installing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba. Imagery from satellites and high flying U-2 airplanes, provided incontrovertible proof that the rumors were true. The resulting confrontation between Soviet Premier ...

Corbis / Bettmann By JAMES RISEN Requires Adobe Acrobat he Central Intelligence Agency's secret history of its covert operation to overthrow Iran's government in 1953 offers an inside look at how the agency stumbled into success, despite a series of mishaps that derailed its original plans. Written in 1954 by one of the coup's chief planners, the history details how United States and British ...

Table of Contents Foreward Preface Episode 1, 1962-1963: Distortions of Intelligence Episode 2, 1963-1965: CIA Judgments on President Johnson's Decision To Go Big in Vietnam Episode 3, 1967-1968: CIA, the Order-of-Battle Controversy, and the Tet Offensive The Three Episodes in Perspective: Lessons To Be Learned About the Intelligence/Policymaking Relationship Annex: Examples of . . . Harold P.

USS Pueblo (AGER-2) reeTH Official Navy Photograph Provided by Steve Woelk The USS Pueblo was a U. S. Navy vessel sent on an intelligence mission off the coast of North Korea. On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo was attacked by North Korean naval vessels and MiG jets. One man was killed and several were wounded. The Eighty-two surviving crew members were captured and held prisoner for 11 months.

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An archive of UK civil defence material dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. Includes the famous Protect and Survive leaflet and many other interesting documents.

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See the PERSHING photo gallery Three Decades of PERSHING - a 17-minute look at the history of the PERSHING, from its beginnings in 1958 to the INF Treaty RealPlayer (technical note - this stream is only for those with 34kbs connections and higher... 56K modems and faster) MS Media Player (technical note - this stream is only for those with 34kbs connections and higher... 56K modems and ...

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About This Project Introduction PART ONE: Cold War and Special Warfare Interest, Intervention, and Containment Toward a Doctrine of Special Warfare The Legacy of World War II Toward a New Counterinsurgency: Philippines, Laos, and Vietnam Waging Unconventional Warfare: Guatemala, the Congo, and the Cubans PART TWO: Camelot and Counterinsurgency The Kennedy Crusade The Apparatus in the Field ...

To View the Synopsis To View The CIA and the U2 Program in Adobe Acrobat. Gregory W. Pedlow Donald E. Welzenbach History Staff Center for the Study of Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency 1998 Publications Page | CSI Homepage ...

Cold Warfare: A Compact History By Patrick Pacalo, Capt., MA A history of the Cold War in one heavy-duty laminated color soft cover volume. This concise, yet detailed history was written and researched by a former Intelligence Officer. Source materials used as a basis for the single-volume history of the Cold War include: declassified CIA documents obtained under the Freedom Of Information Act ...

Diplomatic Papers of the United States dealing with relations with the Soviet Union particularly with the U2 Airplane Incident and the RB47 Airplane Incident ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968 In reponse to the efforts, early in 1968, of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, under the leadership of Alexander Dubcek, to introduce a number of reforms, including the abolition of censorship, the Soviet Union adopted a policy of combating anti-socialist forces . The polict became known as Brezhnev ...

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John Kennedy was a Cold Warrior who escalated American involvement in Vietnam, and believed in the Domino Theory of communist expansion.

History of the Cuban missile crisis, revised with the most recent information (yr. 2000) released from U.S. and Russian secret archives ...

A full-text lecture that discusses the origins of the cold war in the years immediately following World War Two ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: United Nations: Cuban Missile Crisis Debate, 1962 Between Adlai Stevenson and V. A. Zorin in the United Nations Security Council, October 23, 1962 Mr. STEVENSON (United States of America): I have asked for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to bring to your attention a grave threat to the Western Hemisphere and to the peace ...

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Warsaw Security Pact: May 14, 1955 Art 1 Art 2 Art 3 Art 4 Art 5 Art 6 Art 7 Art 8 Art 9 Art 10 Art 11 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Rumanian People's ...

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Past & Present - A Research Tool for GDR History Vergangenheit & Gegenwart - Ein Hilfsmittel zur Erforschung der DDR Geschichte SITEMAP DISCLAIMER This site is optimised for Internet Explorer. Diese Website ist fur Internet Explorer optimiert. GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK 1949 - 1990 Studying the GDR in the UK and Germany DDR Forschung in Gro britannien und ...

Next | ToC | Prev Chapter 20 Krushchev's Challenge: The U-2 Dilemma AS THE GLOW OF SUNRISE ILLUMINED the snowcapped peaks of the Western Himalayas, the pilot moved the throttle lever to full power and the heavily laden plane began a lazy roll down the long runway at Peshawar. The engine whined, the rate of acceleration was slow, and with each unevenness of the runway the long downward sloping ...

APPENDIX C: THE WARSAW PACT -- Soviet Union THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY ALLIANCE of the Soviet Union and East European socialist states, known as the Warsaw Pact, was formed in 1955 as a counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), created in 1949. During much of its early existence, the Warsaw Pact essentially functioned as part of the Soviet Ministry of Defense. In fact, in ...

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FAS | Intelligence | IMINT Gallery | U-2 |||| Index | Search | Join FAS U-2 Documents SOVIET CHARGES OF U.S. VIOLATIONS OF ITS AIR SPACE; MARCH - JUNE 1958 39. Editorial Note 43. Editorial Note 44. Memorandum for the Record Washington, April 24, 1958. 45. Memorandum of Conversation SUBJECT Courtesy Call of Minister Kuznetsov Washington, May 19, 1958. 46. Memorandum From Secretary of State Dulles ...

Policy Analysis No. 114 November 30, 1988 U.S. MILITARY SPENDING IN THE COLD WAR ERA: OPPORTUNITY COSTS, FOREIGN CRISES, AND DOMESTIC CONSTRAINTS by Robert Higgs Robert Higgs is the William E. Simon Professor of Political Economy at Lafayette College and the author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Govern- ment (Oxford University Press, 1987). Executive Summary ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Warsaw Pact, 1955 TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, CO-OPERATION AND MUTUAL ASSISTANCE' Between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Rumanian People's Republic, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the ...

The Master of Disguise; My Secret Life in the CIA, a novel about clandestine deception, disguise and illusion as practiced by spy masters and their secret agents in the espionage wars and covert shadow world of intelligence operations, by Antonio J. Mendez.

Tell me when this page is updated Berlin Airlift Celebrating The 50th Anniversary A Pictorial History Russian dictator Joseph Stalin chose the night of June 23, 1948 to make good his threat to cut overland supply lines to West Berlin. He wanted to vent his frustration at refusal by the western allied powers to accept East Berlin as the capital of a communist puppet regime and at introduction of ...

The secret Installation where bombs were designed. The city s official name is Sarov; it is also known now as Arzamas-16, sometimes nicknamed Los Arzamas after its American prototype, Los Alamos. he Installation was a secret city in the central Volga region of the USSR where a special design bureau was creating nuclear weapons. Even the name of the city was secret (some forty years later ...

Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture 21: Forging the Iron Curtain in the Balkans, 1944-1956 Previous lecture / Complete list of lectures / Next lecture Winston Churchill was talking about the Cold War in Eastern Europe when he referred to the Iron Curtain in a well-known speech of 1946. The end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War are intertwined. Stereotypical ...

Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture 23: Social and economic change in the Balkans Previous lecture / Complete list of lectures / Next lecture Significant changes from longstanding norms are easier to find in the area of Balkan socio-economic development, than in the world of politics. No matter how discouraging the repetition of Balkan crises and nationalist enthusiasms ...

Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture 24: The failure of Balkan Communism and the causes of the Revolutions of 1989 Previous lecture / Complete list of lectures / Next lecture The Revolutions of 1989 that ended Soviet-style Communism in the East European socialist states from the Baltic to the Balkans, were both dramatic and largely unexpected. It will be many years before a full ...

Read about the event that increase tensions during the Cold War and provided the example for future relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture 22: Balkan politics in the Cold War years Previous lecture / Complete list of lectures / Next lecture Lecture 21 criticized conventional, stereotypical views of the origin of the Cold War, on two grounds. First, that they substitute conclusions for questions, then tend to overlook important facts that don't support those conclusions. Second, ...

Tells how sputnik was a turning point in American History.

This site is hosted by Netfirms Web Hosting SIXTIES.NET The Astronauts Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and the Race to the Moon In the late 1950's, after the then-Soviet Union launched the first earth satellite, Sputnik, the United States began a race into space. And in the early 1960's, President John F. Kennedy commited the U.S. to a Race to the Moon. While Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin was the ...

MAY - JULY 1960: THE U - 2 AIRPLANE INCIDENT 147. Editorial Note On May 1, a U.S. U - 2 unarmed reconnaissance plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers who was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, was shot down by Soviet military authorities 1, 200 miles inside the Soviet Union near Sverdlovsk. In the following days, Nikita Khru-shchev exploited the incident to sabotage the summit meeting ...

Krieghan's Cold War Presentation Welcome to Krieghan's Cold War Presentation Page. This Webpage was designed as part of an English project, and my entire presentation has been converted to internet. So sit back and enjoy the history of the Cold War. Click on these to visit them. Enjoy!!! Krieghan's Brochure Interview with Dr. Cavallini Interview with Mrs. Stoeber Project Display 1 - Major ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: COMINFORM COMMUNIQUE: Resolution of the Information Bureau Concerning the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, June 28, 1948 The Information Bureau, composed of the representatives of the Bulgarian Workers' Party (Communists), Rumanian Workers' Party, Hungarian Workers' Party, Polish Workers' Party, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ...