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20th Century
The history of the first moon landing: the road to Apollo 11
20th Century
Oppenheimer: the real history of the ‘father of the atomic bomb’
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The Soviets had landed on the Moon first and won the Space Race?
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Life in East Germany: the cultural evolution behind the Iron Curtain
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
World on the brink
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The road to resolution
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Dangerous days
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a Cold War hero or a failed idealist: the historians’ verdict
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Max Hastings
"If the Americans had bombed Cuba in 1962, escalation would have been almost inevitable"
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Broken ties & a secret pact
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Tensions mount
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War without end: conflict in Afghanistan, from the Cold War Soviet invasion to the Taliban
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Britain's nuclear fears
How has the UK prepared for Armageddon?
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Nuclear fall-out: how the USA & USSR became bitter enemies
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Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict
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