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The 'Domino Theory' and why America believed one communist victory could trigger many more
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It was President Dwight D. Eisenhower who told a room of reporters on 7 April 1954 that the nations of Southeast Asia resembled a row of dominoes: if …
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The Ultimate Game of Chicken: Understanding Mutually Assured Destruction
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Captain Valentin Savitsky aboard the Soviet submarine B-59 ordered his crew to prepare a nuclear torpedo for launch against the American warships dropping depth charges above them on 27 October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis had brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear annihilation, and only the refusal of flotilla chief of staff Vasili Arkhipov to give his required consent to fire prevented a weapon with the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb...
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Why China entered the Korean War when victory seemed almost certain for the UN
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In October 1950, the Chinese Communist Party had controlled mainland China for exactly one year, but Mao Zedong's treasury was nearly empty after …
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The American pilot that gave out free candy during the Berlin Airlift
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On mid-July 1948, a 27-year-old American pilot named Gail Halvorsen walked to the barbed-wire fence at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, reached into his …
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The Molotov Plan was the Soviet Union’s answer to the Marshall Plan
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On 2 July 1947, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov walked out of the Three-Power Conference in Paris, rejecting American proposals for …
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Why the internet was originally designed to survive nuclear war
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In 1960, an electrical engineer named Paul Baran sat in his office at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, working on a problem that …

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The 'Domino Theory' and why America believed one communist victory could trigger many more

The Ultimate Game of Chicken: Understanding Mutually Assured Destruction

Why China entered the Korean War when victory seemed almost certain for the UN

The American pilot that gave out free candy during the Berlin Airlift

The Molotov Plan was the Soviet Union’s answer to the Marshall Plan

Why the internet was originally designed to survive nuclear war

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