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The Korean War — Why It Was Called the "Forgotten War" and What the Armistice Left Unresolved

# The Korean War — Why It Was Called the "Forgotten War" and What the Armistice Left Unresolved The Korean War was called "forgotten" while it was still being…

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What the Space Race Actually Built — The Consumer Technologies That Came Down from Orbit

In the summer of 1960, a NASA engineer working on the Apollo life support system signed off on a new mattress padding compound. The material had been developed…

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Cold War Proxy Conflicts: Vietnam, Korea, Angola, and the Logic of Indirect War

The Cold War's defining paradox was that two nations capable of destroying human civilization with their arsenals almost never fired at each other directly. *W…

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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days That Almost Ended the World

On the morning of October 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was shown reconnaissance photographs taken two days earlier by a U-2 spy plane over western Cuba…

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The Space Race 1957–1969: Sputnik to the Moon as Cold War Proxy

On October 4, 1957, a metal sphere roughly the size of a beach ball was launched into orbit from a Kazakh steppe. It weighed 184 pounds, circled the Earth ever…

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The Cold War: How Allies Became Enemies in Two Years

In the spring of 1945, American and Soviet soldiers met on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany and embraced. Photographs of that encounter circulated aroun…

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The Korean War, 1950–1953 — Why the Forgotten Conflict Shaped the Modern World Order

It is a peculiar irony of the twentieth century that one of its most consequential conflicts remains one of its least examined. The Korean War, fought between…

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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days That Brought the World to the Brink

On the morning of October 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was shown a set of aerial photographs. They depicted, with unsettling clarity, Soviet ballistic m…

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The Domino Theory and Vietnam: How Cold War Logic Drove America into Its Longest War

In April 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a press conference in Washington and introduced an analogy that would cost more than 58,000 American lives. He…

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The Space Race as Cold War Weapon — How Sputnik and Apollo Were More Political Than Scientific

On the night of October 4, 1957, radio operators around the world detected a faint, repetitive beeping transmitted from orbit. Sputnik 1, a 184-pound aluminum…

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