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Tales from the most dangerous decades in history.

58 episoder

#Cold War #Dr. DJ Kinney #History #Society #News

The Cold War Vault

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Tales from the most dangerous decades in history.

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#Cold War #Dr. DJ Kinney #History #Society #News

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EP56: Doom Inflation -the Doomsday Clock 35:54

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Recently, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the minute hand of the "Doomsday Clock" to 90 seconds to midnight. Since 1947, the clock has been a symbol of existential dread. But has it outlived its purpose?

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A SHOW UPDATE and Cuban Missile Crisis Project Report 13:34

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This is a short one. It's a show update for the new YouTube series on the alternate end of the Cuban Missile Crisis on this 60th Anniversary. And a little speculation on how things might have been. I have lots to share on the new channel https://www.youtube.com/@coldwarvault The new series is just a start. Come see what I'm building there and subscribe. And come to Patreon.com/coldwarvault for more material, early releases and a direct line to my ear. --DJ…

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EP54: Movies of the Cold War AFTERMATH 1:07:10

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The final installment of the series on cinema of nuclear war brings us to the uncertain world of the "aftermath." From immediate effects to decades after, who knows what the world after a nuclear war will be like? Movies of the Cold War have made an attempt to figure it out.

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EP53: Movies of the Cold War STRIKE 46:20

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In the third episode of this series of nuclear war on film, we look at the moment the missiles land and how it was depicted through the decades of the Cold War--from survival to hopeless destuction.

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EP 52: Movies of the Cold War LAUNCH 44:51

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This is the second part of a series about the films of the Cold War. This time we go beyond escalation to launching the war. What kinds of glitches and mistakes might have caused the balloon to go up and how it was represented in the movies.

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EP51: Movies of the Cold War ESCALATION 1:15:16

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In this series we'll break down the greatest films of the Cold War and see each phase of a conflict through the lens of the movies. The first episode is "escalation." What do films have to say about the period leading up to the war? What lessons can be learned about the fears of the public and the intentions of the filmmakers? This is episode 1 of a four part series.…

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EP50: Aliens in the Sound Channel 45:44

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We start with whales and end with aliens on this episode of the Cold War Vault. By exploring geophysicist Maurice Ewing's contributions to the national defense in submarine warfare, we will go on a journey that takes us to the darkest depths, to Roswell, New Mexico, and on to other unsolved mysteries of the skies and the seas.…

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EP49: An Interview with John McEuen 37:32

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John McEuen was a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and in 1977 was invited on a musical tour of the Soviet Union. On this episode, John McEuen recounts some stories about the tour and thoughts on what the Soviet Union was like in those days.

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EP48: The Taiwan Crisis of 1958 49:12

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Recently uncovered documents reveal how close the 1958 Taiwan Crisis came to going nuclear. Important context to have in the current world.

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EP47: Sleeper Agent with Ann Hagedorn 35:26

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An interview with author Ann Hagedorn about an early Cold War espionage ring and the American-born spy who escaped to the Soviet Union--but only after stealing secrets from the Manhattan Project. Sleeper Agent by Ann Hagedorn was released on 20 July 2021.

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EP46: Mishaps and Missile Men Part2 40:14

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In this episode we'll look at the most serious mishaps at NORAD during the most tense days of the War Scare years and compare the very similar crisis faced by Stansilav Petrov in the Soviet Union in 1983.

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EP43: Mishaps and Missile Men part 1 34:45

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A techno-thriller, exploring the technological background of many of the nuclear near misses and close calls of the Cold War. Inferior computer systems and common sense battled it out for the survival of human kind.

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EP44: 1983 Part 4 - The 1984 Addendum 34:36

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Could it have been that the most dangerous year of the Great War Scare wasn't 1983 with Able Archer, but 1984, when the danger receded into the mechanisms of the Soviet intelligence apparatus? Yes it could. For nearly a full year, the Soviet Union continued to operate on the assumption that the United States was going to launch a surprise attack. And the U.S. didn't seem to have a clue.…

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EP43: 1983 Part 3 - Able Archer 45:00

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In part three of the 1983 series, we go deeper into what Exercise Able Archer actually was and why it scared the Soviet Union. After all this, was the war scare real? Recently released documents answer the question.

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EP42: 1983 Part 2 - The Hammer and the Nail 41:09

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The second part of the series on the Great War Scare goes into even more incidents and accidents that heightened tensions in advance of the events of Autumn Forge 1983. Reagan's rhetoric, the Star Wars Program, Operation RYaN, and the shootdown of KAL 007 all play a role in setting the stage for the real drama...and the real danger.…

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