For Xi Jinping the Cold War never really ended. What we saw as a victory of democracy was a failure of weak men and a cautionary tale for Xi and the Chinese Communist Party. In this episode we talk ab...
Cold War Nicolas Maduro and Venezuela (00:26:17)
Nicolas Maduro is in the news right now. When we look at his history and ideology, we find that he’s pretty much a guy that showed up late to the Cold War. We discuss his humble origins, training in C...
Cold War Donald Trump (00:42:24)
Part 2 of our series on current world leaders and the Cold WarToday we’re looking at how the Cold War shaped Donald Trump and his experiences growing up during a period of peak American prosperity and...
House of Dynamite (00:11:38)
Netflix just released House of Dynamite, a nuclear thriller that brings the looming horror of the Cold War and nuclear war to the present day. Today I’m giving you my off the cuff review of the show a...
Buzludzha - Cold War Halloween Special (00:21:54)
Today we’re talking about one of the creepiest relics of the Cold War, Buzludzha Monument in Bulgaria - an abandoned testament to communism’s unfulfilled ambitions. It resembles a giant concrete UFO o...
Cold War Putin and Zelensky (00:33:02)
Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky both had their formative and life altering moments during the Cold War. In this episode, we discussed their history and how the fall of the Soviet Union, a nation...
The Long Walk - Stephen King (00:20:47)
The film for the Stephen King book The Long Walk just hit the theaters over the weekend. While we have a lot of accounts of the horrors of war, this story is the product of the dread over the prospect...
Strategic Rocket Forces of Russia/USSR (00:32:48)
In a recent episode about nuclear first strike plans, I got carried away and forgot to mention the strategic rocket forces of Russia/the Soviet Union. In this episode, I talk about one of the world’s ...
Nuclear First Strike Plans and How They Change (00:48:12)
Today we are addressing a listener question on how nuclear strike plans have changed over the course of the Cold War for both the United States and her adversaries. This is a fun question to answer be...
Poland Invokes NATO’s Article 4 (00:16:34)
Breaking news of Cold War interest! Poland invokes article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty in response to Russian drones violating Polish airspace. In this off the cuff episode i discuss what the artic...
The US Army in Poland (01:18:36)
In this episode we talk about how a Cold War rival became one of the United States’ greatest allies - Poland. This episode is for my wife (and kids), as my stepson recently deployed with the Army to P...
Finland: Cold War to NATO (00:57:27)
Today we are talking about Finland’s Cold War experience - one of coerced neutrality and military preparedness. We’ll also spend some time talking about Finland’s recent NATO membership and geopolitic...
The Eternaut / El Eternauta (00:24:21)
Today we’re going south of the equator for an interesting Cold War perspective from Argentina - El Eternauta, a comic series that originated in 1957 and was recently remade into a Netflix series. We’r...
The Dalai Lama Flees Tibet (00:47:59)
The last episode we talked about the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and today we’re concluding it with the Dalai Lama escaping to India. In an already contentious world, the actions of this one man from a...
China Invades Tibet - 1950 (00:33:24)
Today we’re talking about the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950. We’ll discuss how China lost Tibet in the first place, the “century of humiliation” and the agreement China gave Tibet. We’ll also disc...
Smiling Buddha - India Goes Nuclear (00:31:37)
With the recent tensions between India and Pakistan, i figured it was a good time to talk about India’s entrance to the nuclear club. We’ll talk about the reasons why India would want the bomb and the...
UVB-76 - Russia’s Doomsday Radio (00:13:52)
UVB-76 is in the news today because of a cryptic shortwave transmission. I wanted to jump on real quick and talk a little bit about what we know about the station, some speculation on what they’re up ...
The Man Between (1953) (00:19:40)
Today we’re talking about a real Cold War gem - Carol Reed’s 1953 film noir thriller “The Man Between”. It’s a great showcase of one of the most tense times and places in the Cold War, Berlin in the e...
Project Iceworm - Missiles in Greenland (00:36:00)
During the Cold War the United States started on a secret plan to build an extensive network of tunnels in Greenland’s ice cap for nuclear missiles. We’re going to talk about project iceworm, but we’l...
Sirius Patrol - Greenland’s First Line of Defense (00:21:58)
The defense of Greenland is in the hands of a handful of men - Denmark’s Sirius Patrol. They’re an elite long range reconnaissance patrol unit that prowls Greenland’s coastline on dogsleds looking for...
Greenland: NATO’s Atlantic Shield (00:26:48)
Greenland is in the news right now because Donald Trump is looking to add it to America’s portfolio. Today we are talking about the strategic importance of Greenland during the Cold War and current da...
SEATO (vs. NATO) (00:28:55)
Today we are looking at the short and not very sweet history SEATO, The Southeast Asian Treaty Organization. We are also going to look at what’s made NATO work that SEATO didn’t have. Who knows, we ma...
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen (00:19:13)
In this episode, I look at a recent book by Annie Jacobsen that gives a realistic account of what would go down if we detected nuclear missiles incoming. Although it takes place in the present, there’...
Ho Chi Minh’s Speech - Vietnam’s Independence (00:18:48)
On September 2, 1945 Ho Chi Minh delivered a speech in Hanoi announcing Vietnam’s independence from Japan and France. Tonight we’re going to read the speech and add a little context in order to hear i...
Oppenheimer (00:20:35)
My thoughts on the film Oppenheimer and one of the major themes of the film and how it relates to the Cold War
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