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  • Collection: Cold War (Global Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)

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Picture of the cold war countries.

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South Korean Marines waiting to go aboard the U.S.S. Pickaway near Pusan, Korea, during Korean War.

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Two enemy Model T-34 tanks, hidden in the valley along the Inchon-Seoul Road, were knocked out by a 3.5 rocket team.

National-Security-Archive-Doc-03-U-S-Air-Force.pdf
One of the implications of the Harmon report, that 133 atomic bombs were not enough to break the Soviet Union, may have fed into the pressure for the hydrogen-bomb or “super” that accelerated after the Soviets tested an atomic device in August 1949.

NSF_act_1950_legislation.pdf
Document of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, outlining the functions and logistics of the foundation.

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Photograph of a tank and military personnel during the Korean War.

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Cartoon shows Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev looking in dismay at a massive stone hammer and sickle, now shattered into many parts. One of a new breed of Soviet leaders who ascended to power in 1980s, Gorbachev implemented political and cultural…

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President Ronald Reagan Meeting with Afghan Freedom Fighters in The Oval Office to Discuss Soviet Atrocities in Afghanistan

Wilson-CHERNOBYL-1987.pdf
Pages 6 - 11 of "Issues in Science and Technology", Vol. 3, No. 2

Speaks on the beginnings of Chernobyl and some insight of the event.

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Technician checking a car for radiation, but the monitor was off so that no one knew if there was real radiation on it.
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