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- Collection: Cold War (Global Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
Early RocketsPhoto of the launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1, the first American satellite successfully launched
North Korean prisoners of warSinchon, Korea. North Korean prisoners were captured just south of Uijeongbu.
The continental scale of the Chernobyl accidentThe accident involving reactor meltdown and massive release of radioactivity occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant situated…
Nuclear Law Bulletin No.44Reviews post-Chernobyl legal shifts in nuclear safety, liability, and international cooperation. It covers key topics such as the IAEA Conventions on…
Smallpox cases reported worldwideVisualization of smallpox cases reported globally.
Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2019Visualization of polio deaths and cases globally.
02710009Through the IAEA's International Chernobyl Project, some 200 scientists from 25 countries and seven international organizations participated in field…
Long khanh fallenSP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why?…
Minutes of CC CPSU Politburo Session (Anatoly S. Chernyaev notes)Excerpts from Politburo sessions reveal a rare internal blame-shifting "fight" among agency representatives. Gorbachev criticizes nuclear industry…
NSC-Oct-2017The New Safe Confinement in final position over reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.