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- Collection: Cold War (Global Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
NSC-Oct-2017The New Safe Confinement in final position over reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Soviet authorities say one of the atomic reactors at the nuclear power plant in Kiev was damaged. Radiation had spread very far and slowly revealing…
Treaty Between The United States Of America And The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics On The Elimination Of Their Intermediate-Range And Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty)The treaty marked the first agreement between the two superpowers to reduce their nuclear arsenals, rather than simply limit their growth. It…
Excerpt from report by the Ad Hoc Committee to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Evaluation of Effect on Soviet War Effort Resulting from the Strategic Air Offensive,” 12 May 1949, Top Secret, excised copy.The first systematic effort to estimate the destruction to the Soviet Union that a U.S. atomic attack would cause and the extent to which the…
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichA journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to…
A Viet Cong base camp being burned downMỹ Tho, Vietnam. A Viet Cong base camp being burned down. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota, C Company, 3rd…
Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor TourA photograph of the inside of Chernobyl during the United States congressional delegation tour of the nuclear reactor sit.
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (2015) 68Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Y.I. Chazov, Minister of Health, to the CPSU CC, 'Medical Aspects of the Accident at Chernobyl AEhS'A summary of the measures taken by health ministries in the aftermath of the accident, laid out in narrative format.
Statement by the President regarding the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958Statement by President Eisenhower on signing the National Aeronautics and Space Act