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- Collection: Cold War (Global Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
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Smallpox cases reported worldwide
Visualization of smallpox cases reported globally.
Smallpox eradication: a cold war victory
Cold War scientist, Donald Henderson, describes the scientific collaboration between the US, USSR, and WHO in an effort to eridcate smallpox.
South Korean Marines
South Korean Marines waiting to go aboard the U.S.S. Pickaway near Pusan, Korea, during Korean War.
Speech by Mikhail Gorbachev to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, "Europe as a Common Home"
Mikhail Gorbachev Delivers a Speech to the Council of Europe about the change of direction of the Soviet Union from that of the Brezhnev Doctrine
Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Speakes on the Soviet Nuclear Reactor Accident at Chernobyl
In response to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the Reagan administration established a U.S. interagency task force, led by the Environmental Protection Agency, to monitor health and environmental effects. The task force will provide daily updates,…
Statement by the President regarding the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
Statement by President Eisenhower on signing the National Aeronautics and Space Act
Technician checking our car for radiation
Technician checking a car for radiation, but the monitor was off so that no one knew if there was real radiation on it.
The continental scale of the Chernobyl accident
The accident involving reactor meltdown and massive release of radioactivity occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant situated seven kilometres south of the Ukraine- Belarus border, at the confluence of the Pripyat and Dnieper…
Top Secret Report of Major Yuri Gagarin
Report rom Gagarin, the first person to orbit earth