The threat of the ‘Komsomolets’: A Soviet nuclear submarine has been leaking radiation from the seabed for four decades The K-278 has been emitting radioactive material since it sank in 1989, although torpedoes with atomic warheads resist corrosion

The threat of the ‘Komsomolets’: A Soviet nuclear submarine has been leaking radiation from the seabed for four decades.
The K-278 has been emitting radioactive material since it sank in 1989, although torpedoes with atomic warheads resist corrosion.
english.elpais.com/science-tech... #coldwarhist

Assata Shakur, fugitive Black liberation activist, dies in Cuba aged 78 A member of the Black Panther Party, Shakur escaped from a US prison in 1979, where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer. She was given political asylum in Cuba.

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said.
www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie... #coldwarhist

Valentina Gargarina: the woman who stayed on Earth Every year on April 12 the world celebrates Yuri's Night , or the I nternational Day of Human Spaceflight. The spotlight is on Yuri Gagarin...

Valentina Gargarina: the woman who stayed on Earth
zoharesque.blogspot.com/2025/04/vale... by @drspacejunk.bsky.social #coldwarhist

Proud I've at last managed to fit the phrase, "Ich habe ein kleine Panzer, kann ich parken hier, bitte?" into an academic article that I'm currently writing on the British-German relationship during the Cold War #amwriting #milhistsky #ColdWarHist

Keston Research Associate in Religion under Communist Regimes at Cardiff University Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Keston Research Associate in Religion under Communist Regimes on jobs.ac.uk!

This sounds like a great opportunity for someone! #history #coldwarhist #skystorians

Three-year fixed term research post working on religion under communist regimes in Central and/or Eastern Europe at Cardiff University:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB493/k....

Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’ An exhibition in Sofia of Garo Keshishian's black-and-white photos of communist-era compulsory labour units delves into a little-remembered aspect of Bulgaria's repressive past.

Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’ #bulgaria #coldwarhist

balkaninsight.com/2025/01/10/e...

A plea: does anyone here have access to the most recent issues of the Journal of Modern History? My institutional access only goes up to 2019, and there’s an article from 2023 that I could really do with reading… #skystorians #historians #coldwarhist

A Czech Cold War Cold Case Is Now A Murder Investigation

‘Seventy-seven years later, we still don't have final clarity on the death of Jan Masaryk, which came as Communist parties seized power in Czechoslovakia and across Central and Eastern Europe’ #czechoslovakia #coldwar #coldwarhist

www.rferl.org/amp/czech-mu...

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism #coldwarhist #coldwar #books #poland

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

BBC Archive has shared an excerpt from 'Did You See...?' (1984) on nuclear horror film Threads. Features interviews with director Mick Jackson and writer Barry Hines, plus discussions with military strategiests, CND and others. Well worth a look. #coldwarhist #coldwar www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWJj...

Podcast: 27.1.1973: Friedensabkommen für Vietnam Heute vor 50 Jahren wurde in Paris das "Abkommen über die Beendigung des Krieges und die Wiederherstellung des Friedens in Vietnam" unterzeichnet.

#OTD 27.1.1973: Friedensabkommen für Vietnam besiegelt die Niederlage der USA

#Stichtag #ColdWarHist #History #Podcast

www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/der-...

Well this is a very exciting thing to drop onto the doormat today #ColdWarHist

NEW EPISODE - #Bombs, #Berlin & #Peacekeeping: A #Para's #ColdWar Story

Listen here 🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode383/
#skystorians #coldwarhist #britisharmy

Museum Honours Woman Who Challenged Albania’s Brutal Communist Takeover Musine Kokalari paid a heavy price for opposing Albania’s slide into totalitarianism; a newly opened museum recalls her largely forgotten struggle for a more liberated society.

New museum honours Musine Kokalari, communist show trial victim and political prisoner in Albania:

balkaninsight.com/2024/12/20/m...

#coldwarhist #coldwar #albania

This sounds fascinating! @coldwarpod.bsky.social #coldwarhist #coldwar #czechoslovakia #prague

Mystery Photos Shed Light On Romania's 1989 Revolution A collection of images donated anonymously to a Hungarian photo archive capture pitched battles in Timisoara, the city where Romania's revolution broke out 35 years ago.

Mystery Photos Shed Light On Romania's 1989 Revolution:

www.rferl.org/a/mystery-ph...

#coldwar #coldwarhist #romania #photos

A black and white photograph. A man and a woman in West Berlin stand on top of a VW car, parked a short distance from the Berlin Wall. Light snow lies on the ground. They are waving to their relatives (unseen) on the other side of the wall in East Berlin.

#Photo of West Berliners waving to relatives in East Berlin, across the Berlin Wall, on Christmas Day in 1961 #coldwarhist #berlin #germany #coldwar

The psychological impact of nuclear war How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.

In 1981, a civil servant at the Home Office identified a surprising group who'd thrive after nuclear war: psychopaths. Their immunity from emotion led government officials to briefly consider them for post-apocalyptic leadership roles. Read more: https://buff.ly/4fNxw7k #coldwarhist #nuclearwar

Wise words from the fifties. Poster to promote the Marshall plan in Europe (1950). #coldwarhist

A man in a uniform stands on top of a half-completed Royal Observer Corps monitoring post bunker. He's leaning against the ventilation shaft, which is yet to be buried. There's excavated earth and chalk all around. The photo looks to be from the early 1960s.

A few years ago, I came across these pics of an ROC Post under construction at Hog's Back in Surrey. These bunkers played a crucial role in the UK's civil defence strategy, but it's rare to see one being built. More images on the blog: coldwar.org.uk/building-a-b... #coldwarhist #nuclearwar #bunkers

Cold War Museology Cold War Museology is the first volume to bring together interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading practitioners and academics specialising in Cold War museology.  Bringing the mo...

It's publication day and *open access* on this fantastic collection of scholarship that I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to. My chapter is on British Forces Germany and their varied presence and presentation in UK museums #ColdWarHist

www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Mus...

From Sydney to the Vietnam War: An Australian Soldier’s Cold War Journey John Brooker is a remarkable Australian veteran who shared his journey from the streets of Sydney, Australia to the battlefields of Vietnam.John Brooker is a remarkable Australian veteran

LATEST EPISODE - An #Australian #Vietnamwar #veteran shares his story.

⬇️⬇️Listen here coldwarconversations.com/episode367
#coldwarhist #coldwar

The Golden Age of Offbeat Arctic Research The Cold War spawned some odd military projects that were doomed to fail, from atomic subways to a city under the ice.

The Golden Age of Offbeat Arctic Research
The Cold War spawned some odd military projects that were doomed to fail, from atomic subways to a city under the ice. undark.org/2024/09/06/w... #coldwarhist

Terrific job going here for a Researcher on the National Museums Scotland "Materialising the Cold War" project, helping deliver the exhibition and wider project goals. Great project, even better team to work with #ColdWarHist #museumjobs vacancies.nms.ac.uk/VacancyDetai...

The Last Days of East Berlin: Tense Footage of Protests at Checkpoint Charlie and Berlin Wall (1989) On 9 October 1989, in the dying days of the Cold War and exactly one month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, ITN's cameras in West Berlin recorded footage ...

#coldwarhist #ddr #berlin
Interesting aerial footage of the #berlinwall in this video

m.youtube.com/watch?si=rBH...

August 1968 - Bernauer Strasse
#berlin #berlinwall #ddr #coldwarhist
Photo: Goetze

April 1969
#berlin #berlinwall #coldwarhist #ddr
Photo: Goetze

Oct 1962 - Heidelberger/ Elsenstrasse
Photo: Landesarchiv Berlin/ Schutz Gert
#ddr #berlinwall #coldwarhist

New on @HSciMedTech:

Check out Richard P. Suttmeier (@uoregon)’s review of @gbarrett_hist’s book _China's Cold War Science Diplomacy_ published in 2022 by @CambridgeUP

#HSTM #HistSci #ColdWarHist #China #DiploHist

Review available...

Neue Horizonte: Deutschland und Europa in der internationalen Politik der 1990er-Jahre

#Leseempfehlung: @SophieLange20|s Tagungsbericht zu unserem Workshop "Neue Horizonte: Deutschland und Europa in der internationalen Politik der 1990er Jahre", der im September in Kooperation mit der @RWTH stattfand. #coldwarhist #thecoldwarandbeyond
https://t.co/l1i9ouW4vl