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Two pool chairs next to an indoor pool decorated to look like a tropical island beach.

Deceptively Bright, in an Up and Coming Area

Private bunkers and the people who build them.

by Will Wiles via Literary Review on July 1, 2020

News correspondent inside Berlin Wall tunnel.

The Battle Between NBC and CBS to Be the First to Film a Berlin Wall Tunnel Escape

Declassified government documents show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.

by Mike Conway via The Conversation on November 8, 2019

Redactions: The Declassified File

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?

by Tom Blanton, Malcolm Byrne, Lauren Harper via National Security Archive on April 18, 2019

In the Trump Era, America Desperately Needs a Great Movie About Nuclear Apocalypse

If we want to avoid nuclear war, we'd better start imagining it again.

by Jon Schwarz via The Intercept on July 1, 2018

The World the Cold War Built

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.

by Leon Hadar via The American Conservative on January 31, 2018

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg Is Still Thinking About the Papers He Didn’t Get to Leak

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

by Andrew Rice via Intelligencer on November 28, 2017

What Good Is Fear?

As we face down the threat of climate change, it’s worth considering how fear of nuclear war has spurred humanity into action.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 20, 2017

JFK’s Russian Conspiracy

Kennedy had his own secret back channel with Moscow. It may have kept the superpowers from going to war.

by Timothy Naftali via Slate on May 27, 2017

The 'Madman Theory' of Nuclear War Has Existed for Decades. Now, Trump Is Playing the Madman.

Is he crazy, or crazy like a fox?

by Nicole Hemmer via Vox on January 4, 2017

CIA map of food sufficiency in Japan from 1945.

See the Historic Maps Declassified by the CIA

A new gallery provides a rare look inside the 75-year history of the agency’s mapping unit.

by Greg Miller via National Geographic on November 26, 2016

The Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

by Amy Rudersdorf via Digital Public Library of America on June 15, 2015

A Useful Corner of the World: Guantánamo

The U.S. just can't seem to let go of its naval base on Cuba.

by Paul A. Kramer via The New Yorker on July 30, 2013

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