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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Cold War History"”.
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The Foreign Office and policy-making in China, 1945-1950 : Anglo-American relations and the recognition of Communist China
… the role of Great Britain in the origins of the Cold War. In particular it focuses on the Foreign Office attitude towards the course of the Chinese Civil War, and ultimately the establishment of a Communist government in China between 1945 and 1950. It is a revisionist interpretation of cold war …
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From Victory to Defeat: The Chinese Mission in Japan, 1946-1952
… under Chiang Kai-shek adjusted to the post-war international order between 1945 and 1952. The history the governmental delegation representing the Republic of China (ROC) in Tokyo during the allied occupation of Japan reveals a hitherto overlooked aspect of post-war China and East Asia’s …
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Living in the shadow: Britain and the USSR’s nuclear weapon delivery systems 1949-62
… the light of what is now known. This period of Cold War history covers from the Soviet Union’s atomic bomb test through to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The thesis commences with an analysis of the Soviet Union’s nuclear bombers which posed the initial nuclear strike threat to the United Kingdom. It …
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Socialist State Crime and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1961-2005
… – and potentially divisive – past into a forward-looking historical narrative. This study locates the ‘border guard trials’ in the wider context of post-Socialist transitional justice in East Germany since 1989 and asks how they were historically framed by the complex history of German …
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Mixed Signals: Communication with the Alien in Cold War Radio Astronomy
… the tensions, successes, and anxieties of Cold War science. In the mid-20th century, some radio astronomers in the US and USSR believed CETI would bring about global unity by reminding humans we are one species in a vast, possibly populated cosmos. Using a combination of oral history and …
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Nuisance to nemesis: nuclear fallout and intelligence as secrets, problems, and limitations on the arms race, 1940-1964
… States strategic intelligence in the early Cold War. Operated as the Atomic Energy Detection System by a covert Air Force unit known as AFOAT-1, the AEDS detected emissions and analyzed fallout from Soviet nuclear tests, as well as provided quantitative intelligence on the size of the …