between Martin and Mitchell as homosexual and that reading guided the Pentagon's discussion of the defection for decades. William Hamilton Martin (May 27...
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Nevozvrashchentsy List of Cold War pilot defections List of Western Bloc defectors Martin and Mitchell defection List of American and British defectors in the Korean...
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1958 C-130 shootdown incident (category Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union)
Air-to-air combat losses between the Soviet Union and the United States Martin and Mitchell defection NSA PDF file "60528's Last Flight" (PDF). nsa.gov...
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1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (category Nuclear command and control)
having prevented a retaliatory nuclear strike against the United States and its NATO allies, which would likely have resulted in a full-scale nuclear...
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Martin and Mitchell defection: William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, two American cryptologists, announce their defection to the Soviet Union...
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Tupolev Tu-4 (section Design and development)
at the start of the war, but only 93 had been built by the end of the war and the type had become obsolete. The U.S. regularly conducted bombing raids...
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Soviet submarine K-219 (category Nuclear accidents and incidents)
television film Hostile Waters, co-produced with HBO and starring Rutger Hauer, Martin Sheen, and Max von Sydow, was released in the United States by Warner...
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interpreters between U.S. vice president (later U.S. president) Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, at the opening of the American National...
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Seven Days to the River Rhine (category Military exercises and wargames)
NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. This possible World War III scenario was released by Polish Defense Minister Radosław Sikorski following the Law and Justice...
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rules-of-thumb said to have been developed during the Cold War to be used by spies and others working in Moscow. The rules are associated with Moscow because the...
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Truman Doctrine (section Long-term policy and metaphor)
Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 4, 1948, when he pledged to oppose the communist rebellions in Greece and Soviet demands on Turkey...
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Hollow Nickel Case (category United States espionage scandals and incidents)
investigation that grew out of the discovery of a container disguised as a U.S. coin and containing a coded message, eventually found to concern the espionage activities...
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Western Bloc (section Five Eyes and ANZUS)
the 21st century. List of Western Bloc defectors Martin and Mitchell defection List of American and British defectors in the Korean War Allies of World...
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the Soviet army of the three Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – and refusing to diplomatically recognize their subsequent annexation...
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Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, is the day Soviet and American troops met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end...
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Operation Ivy Bells (category United States espionage scandals and incidents)
was a 1971 joint United States Navy, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and National Security Agency (NSA) mission whose objective was to place wire...
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height of the Cold War and the Soviet–Afghan War. In that speech, Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" and as "the focus of evil in...
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Containment (section Historiography and memory)
represented a middle-ground position between détente (relaxation of relations) and rollback (actively replacing a regime). The basis of the doctrine was articulated...
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Soviet submarine K-129 (1960) (category Military nuclear accidents and incidents)
I. Kobzar, and she carried the hull number 722 on her final deployment, during which she sank on 8 March 1968 along with her missiles and their nuclear...
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Détente (section Summits and treaties)
Bell, Coral (1977). The Diplomacy of Detente: The Kissinger Era. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-21122-6. Bowker, Mike; Williams, Phil (1988). Superpower...
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expensive and was superseded by a network of seismic detectors and air sampling for fallout, which were cheaper, more reliable, and easier to deploy and operate...
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the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. The three states were represented...
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Sputnik crisis (section Media and political influences)
; Sharpe, Mitchell (2007). The Rocket Team. Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Books. ISBN 978-1-894959-82-7. Roman, Peter (1995). Eisenhower and the Missile...
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peoples of Eastern Europe and elsewhere which have been deprived of the free exercise of their civil and political rights and which have been swallowed...
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Soviet–American Gallium Experiment (category Science and technology in the Soviet Union)
decay, a nuclear reaction between a gallium (Ga) atom and a neutrino (ν) which produces an electron and a germanium (Ge) atom: 71Ga + ν e → e − + {\displaystyle...
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Tear down this wall! (section Response and legacy)
Helmut Kohl, and West Berlin mayor Eberhard Diepgen. In the speech, he said: We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go...
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The Soviet Union was a charter member of the United Nations and one of five permanent members of the Security Council. Following the dissolution of the...
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A-BOMB IN 1962 CRISIS, FORUM IS TOLD, The Boston Globe, 13 October 2002 Martin J. Sherwin: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Nuclear Deterrence? Good...
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Lavender Scare (category Socialism and LGBTQ topics)
States Martin and Mitchell Defection R. W. Scott McLeod Helen G. James Carmel Offie Samuel Reber Seduction of the Innocent Sexual orientation and the United...
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Potsdam Conference (section Revised Allied Control Commission procedures in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary)
and a Society. New York: Pearson Longman, 2008. Print. Reinisch, Jessica (2013). The Perils of Peace. Oxford University Press. p. 53. Thomas, Martin (1998)...
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