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Cold War

Recently Declassified Soviet Video Shows the Biggest Nuclear Explosion in History

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Recently Declassified Soviet Video Shows the Biggest Nuclear Explosion in History

13 Surprising Facts About George Orwell

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13 Surprising Facts About George Orwell

The Time the U.S. Government Planned to Nuke Alaska

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The Time the U.S. Government Planned to Nuke Alaska

The Disturbing Reason Schools Tattooed Their Students in the 1950s

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The Disturbing Reason Schools Tattooed Their Students in the 1950s

Why 1 Million People Live in Cold War-Era Bunkers Under the Streets of Beijing

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In 1959, the U.S. Postal Service Attempted to Deliver Mail via Missile

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When a 1986 Meeting Between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev Wreaked Havoc on Iceland

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5 Intriguing Details Found in the Newly Released JFK Assassination Papers

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Budapest’s Former Top-Secret Hospital Inside a Cave

The Hospital in the Rock

10 Cold War Artifacts From the Real-Life Bridge of Spies Auction

U-2 designer Kelly Johnson with Francis Gary Powers (left to right).

Why the Berlin Wall Rose and Fell

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Sift Through Eight Decades of CIA Maps

President Nixon, 1970

How a Hot Dog Stand Found Itself In the Soviet Union's Crosshairs

13 Things You Might Not Know About the Berlin Wall

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5 Times Crayola Retired Its Crayons

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Gossip From a 1955 CIA Spy Report Of a Soviet Cocktail Party

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