The Cold War Vault

Recently, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the minute hand of the "Doomsday Clock" to 90 seconds to midnight. Sin... Read more

This is a short one. It's a show update for the new YouTube series on the alternate end of the Cuban Missile Crisis on t... Read more

The final installment of the series on cinema of nuclear war brings us to the uncertain world of the "aftermath." From i... Read more

In the third episode of this series of nuclear war on film, we look at the moment the missiles land and how it was depic... Read more

This is the second part of a series about the films of the Cold War. This time we go beyond escalation to launching the ... Read more

In this series we'll break down the greatest films of the Cold War and see each phase of a conflict through the lens of ... Read more

We start with whales and end with aliens on this episode of the Cold War Vault. By exploring geophysicist Maurice Ewing... Read more

John McEuen was a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and in 1977 was invited on a musical tour of the Soviet ... Read more

Recently uncovered documents reveal how close the 1958 Taiwan Crisis came to going nuclear. Important context to have in... Read more

An interview with author Ann Hagedorn about an early Cold War espionage ring and the American-born spy who escaped to th... Read more