In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, the U.S. carried out an experiment in the South Atlantic aimed at testing an innovative defense system. This system involved creating a radiation belt in the outer layer of the atmosphere, over the country, so that missiles launched in a potential Soviet nuclear attack would have […]
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The Seafloor of Bikini Atoll is the World’s Only Simulated Underwater Nuclear Battlefield
An international team of researchers has recently completed the first comprehensive mapping of the seafloor of Bikini Atoll, the site of the infamous nuclear tests of Operation Crossroads in 1946. The results, published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, provide an unprecedented view of the only simulated underwater nuclear battlefield on Earth, revealing not only […]
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Intervision, the Soviet Bloc Festival that Replicated Eurovision with Voting by Turning the Lights On and Off
This is evident with NATO and the Warsaw Pact or the European Common Market and COMECON. But interestingly enough, the Eastern countries also had a response to something much less serious. In 1977, the ISC, the Intervision Song Contest, was born, which, as you can guess, was a copy of the Eurovision Song Contest in […]
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Kitchen debate, the dialectic exchange between Nixon and Khrushchev during the American National Exhibition in Moscow
On July 24, 1959 Moscow was the site of an unusual event: the American National Exhibition, which followed the Soviet exhibition held a few months earlier in New York, both with the objective of reducing tensions between the two major blocks of the Cold War, taking advantage of the period of thaw that Nikita Krushchev […]
