(Libertage.) Stan, why did you turn the globe to the Green Parts of Not-America? I mean, I guess to be fair, we were a little bit obsessed with this guy. This, however, is United States history, so let us heroically gaze–as Americans so often do–at our own navel. What happened during the cold war?ĭiscussions of the Cold War tend to center on international and political history and those are very important, which is why we’ve talked about them in the past. The US secret code for authorizing a nuclear missile launch was 00000000. Over 15,000 people have died from cancer caused by nuclear testing There were 90 nuclear bomb tests in the Nevada desert in the 1950s and 1960s. It was so secret that even the President wasn’t told about it. His assassination put an end to the idea.Īmerica’s top-secret decoding Project Venona identified 350 Soviet spies in 37 years.
In 1963, 11 months after the Cuban Missile crisis almost caused nuclear war, JFK proposed a joint US-Soviet mission to the moon. There were 40,000 nuclear warheads in the world by 1986, which is the equivalent of one million Hiroshima bombs. 275,000 planes dropped 1.5 million tons of supplies into Berlin when Stalin blockaded the city in 1948.
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