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Defrosting The Cold War
The Cold War was a bone-chilling time. While Americas can-do confidence offered us a sugar frosted promises of a future filled with frost-free fun and abundance, that giddy optimism co-existed with...
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Hot Summer Cold War
The steamy summer of 1961 may have been sweltering, but the Cold War had moved into a deep freeze by July putting a glacial chill in the balmy summer air . Hovering right beneath the surface of that...
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Wag The Dog
Hot Summer…. Cold War Pt III As the world poised for a showdown between those 2 cold warriors the USA and the Soviet Union, the risk of military conflict between the 2 heated up the summer of 1961...
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Licensed to Grill
The mixed weapons deterrent mid -century US relied on as depicted in 1959 illustration in Life Magazine.”Current US defense plan illustrated by this painting relies on use of a mixed and varied force...
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How to Keep Your Cool in The Cold War
The vintage Fallout Shelter Handbook by Chuck West depicts the Concrete Block Shelter so popular with smart suburbans. The interior looks as fresh and modern as any 1960s suburban home. Hot Summer…Cold...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis PT II
Showdown During the next few days everyone’s nerves were having a time of it as the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962 escalated. Along with the rest of the country, my parents anxiously followed the...
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Travels to Russia
(R) Vintage travel poster tours in Soviet Union Crimea A Soviet Spring Vacation Sadly spring break in Siberia is now off-limits to Senator John McCain and other US Representatives thanks to Vladimir...
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Refugee Crisis – The Fear Factor
Steeped in fear, some Americans have a nasty habit of marking an entire people as pre-disposed to disloyalty. After WWII, as my future husband and his family of Holocaust survivors lingered in an...
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Hot Dogs Cold War
A hot dog can make you lose control Hot dogs, that very symbol of culinary democracy took on a special meaning during the cold war, especially in the summer of 1961. The fate of Nathans Hot Dogs hung...
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The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Putin’s Puppet? The rampant distrust and the recent Russian election bombshell has caused my cold war chill to get a lost frostier. Is the Cold War being taken out of deep freeze? The accusations of...
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Defrosting the Cold War
“Defrosting the Cold War” collage by Sally Edelstein Is the Cold War coming out of the deep freeze? Having caught a Cold War chill I never could quite shake, the current frosty relations between...
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Goodbye Dollink R.I.P. June Foray
The many voices of the late, great June Foray June Foray’s memorable voice was the sound of my cold war childhood. Not only was hers the voice I heard when I pulled the string on my Chatty Cathy doll,...
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Cold War July 4th
It was July 4, 1955. The cold war was frozen solid. Never were American dreams more potent or more seductive than in Cold War America when the USA stood united and confident in our role as leader of...
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Why NATO Was Needed
70 years ago NATO was born in the aftermath of WWII out of a desire to prevent WWIII. Conceived out of necessity, this enduring alliance was initially forged to prevent Soviet expansionism. The shared...
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Trump to NATO Nyet
When Donald Trump encourages Russia to attack our NATO Allies there should be more than a red flag. When it comes to danger as well as derangement we are at Def Con 1. Is anyone surprised that Trump...
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