After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
In each of the 3 wars, the #Palestinian cause was taken up in a larger global struggle 👀 : first, #WorldWarII, then the #ColdWar, then the #jihadist war against free societies.
#Palestine has served as an excellent rallying cry for OTHERS who only fight [#inTheirName].
From my Cold War primary source shelves: J. Edgar Hoover’s Masters of Deceit (1958) replete with high school student scholarship contest! #history#ColdWar#books#America#Communism
#OnThisDay in 1980, six terrorists took over the #IranianEmbassy in #London, taking 26 hostages, just a day after the Metropolitan Police assured the Iranians that there was no threat.
My book, Operation Nimrod, covers the siege and the dramatic assault by the #SAS, dispelling the myths.
The ebook version is currently just £0.99/$0.99/€0.99 It's also available in paperback, hardback, and large print.
"Unstable nuclear-waste dams threaten fertile Central Asia heartland"
"Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region uninhabitable, studies have revealed."
This is what the former Soviet nuclear submarine «Komsomolets» looks like – 30 years after it sank in the Norwegian Sea. The submarine lies on a depth of nearly 1700 metres, and it was filmed by the ROV «Ægir 6000» on July 7th 2019.
Read about the findings: hi.no/en/hi/news/2019/july/researchers-discovered-leak-from-komsomolets
I never realized how close the Kurils are to Japan. Leaving aside, y’know, all of Russian and Japanese history prior to 1945, no wonder the Americans were so keen on becoming friends with Japan after the war.
Even if we definitely should have insisted on more trials of murderers and criminals like Shiro Ishii.
Thomas C. Theiner not active in the fediverse posted some nice pictures on X about how elaborate the air and missiledefense was in europe during the coldwar. An enormous system is required to defend a large territory. We don't have enough equipment to fully protect Ukraine this way so the only option it seems is striking deep inside Russia at missile factories, airbases etc. #ukraine#missiledefense#russia#coldwar#ThomasTheiner
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1889, #CharlesChaplin was born into #poverty in London. He never forgot his origins, and spoke out for the poor and for #socialism, and against war and fear, all his life. The US showed its McCarthyite face by driving him into exile during the #ColdWar.
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As an aficionado of #TomClancy, we could really use some delusionally patriotic Americans in the intelligence community to do us a #ColdWar solid.
Recent science fiction purchase. My uncle, who passed away abruptly at 54, recommended it to me years and years ago but I never picked up a copy. #scifi#sciencefiction#USSR#coldwar#history#books
The war in #Ukraine has put to the test two strongly-held tenets of the #ColdWar: the strength of #Russia's Army and the strength of #USA's commitment to its allies.
A potential war in #Europe was supposed to be decided by which one would have been the strongest.
We witnessed how the Russian army wasn't really so strong: but what about the strength of US commitment?
What is stronger?
Had long known about the radioactive boar in Germany resultant from Chernobyl contamination, but a team has shown that a significant amount of the radionuclides they are eating comes from Cold War nuclear weapon testing.
New history purchase! Taras Young’s Nuclear War in the UK (2019). Initial impression: Lots of fascinating images but short on analysis…. #history#ColdWar#books