Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline The Soviet Union sent the first satellite into orbit around the earth in 1957. This came as a shock to the western world. When Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly through space… Read More
Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline In the race between the two superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union, for supremacy during the Cold War, the development of new technologies was massively promoted. Especially in space and aviation. Rockets could… Read More
Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline The superpowers US and Soviet Union engaged in an arms race during the Cold War and at the same time drove the technological progress of an entire society. Areas of natural science that have… Read More
Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline The American attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki marks the beginning of the Cold War, which is expected to last for decades and bring scientific advances with it. In secret laboratories, American and Soviet experts… Read More
Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. It was a war that brought the world to the brink of destruction. But from… Read More
Introduction The Bedford Incident (aka Aux Postes De Combat) is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier and co-produced by Widmark. The cast also features Eric Portman, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam and Wally Cox, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop. The screenplay by James Poe… Read More
Introduction Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS, starred George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, and Noah Wyle, and was one of the few live dramas on American television since its… Read More
Introduction Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The film follows a crisis caused by a critical error that sends a group of US bombers to destroy Moscow, and the ensuing attempts to stop… Read More
Introduction Topaz is a 1969 American espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on the 1967 Cold War novel Topaz by Leon Uris, the film is about a French intelligence agent who becomes entangled in the Cold War politics of before the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and then the breakup of an international Soviet… Read More
Introduction Phantom is a 2013 American submarine thriller film about a Soviet submarine during the Cold War in the 1960s. Todd Robinson wrote and directed the film. It stars Ed Harris, David Duchovny and William Fichtner. The film tells the story of a Soviet Navy submarine captain attempting to prevent a war. It is loosely… Read More
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