Showing posts with label soviet union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soviet union. Show all posts
Friday, March 29, 2013

The thirtieth anniversary of Strategic Defense Initiative

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It was thirty years ago this week that President Ronald Reagan gave a historic speech proposing, for the first time, a space-based anti-ba...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The strange Cold War bar codes across America

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The "bar code" at Walker Field, Maryland Adjacent to the runway of a Navy airfield in Maryland is a paved rectangle.  And with...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

THREADS: A British movie that will scare the hell out of you

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Working on a few things behind the scenes, but felt like posting something tonight. And that's when I discovered that YouTube is hostin...
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Thursday, August 04, 2011

Raoul Wallenberg and Dan Cooper: New clues in two massive mysteries

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Sixty-six years after he disappeared into the prisons of the Soviet Union, new information has been discovered about the fate of Raoul Walle...
Monday, July 11, 2011

How did a thirty-year old scrap of Richmond newspaper get into my driveway?

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For two days now this has been wigging me out. Think y'all will understand why as you read on... Saturday afternoon my girlfriend arriv...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

25 years after Chernobyl

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It was twenty-five years ago today, on the morning of April 26th 1986, that the Chernobyl disaster - the very worst nuclear accident in his...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space!

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Longtime readers of this blog know that one bit of history that I'm particularly fond of is Russian space exploration. Say what one mig...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Fifty years ago today: The "Kitchen Debate" between Nixon and Krushchev

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On July 24th, 1959, one of the more unusual events of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union took place. At the openin...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Ballard: Titanic search was cover-up for U.S. Government mission

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Robert Ballard has come forward with something very interesting: his successful 1985 search for the Titanic was only a cover story for a mi...