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Apollo 11: What We Saw from 2023-12-13T15:58:55.855735
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. The mission that got them there, Apollo 11, was the culmination of the nation's decade-long cultural and s...
ListenTwo Bombs | Part 2 from 2023-12-13T15:58:55.792341
After the defeat of Germany, Joseph Stalin looked at the pieces laid out on the board in front of him with satisfaction that bordered on glee. His Red Army, consisting of millions of ...
ListenWe Like Ike | Part 6 from 2023-12-13T15:58:55.774302
In the years after World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower was arguably the most popular man on the planet. Ike’s prestige was so immense that in 1948, President Harry S Truman offered him the&nbs...
ListenWelcome To The Suck | Part 10 from 2023-12-13T15:58:55.761506
You stepped out of a big, air-conditioned silver bird, out into the kind of heat, sunlight and humidity that even Americans raised in the Deep South could not believe. You would wander around, w...
ListenA Pizza Hut Parade | Part 13 from 2020-04-24T10:00
Nixon goes to China and in a masterstroke of diplomacy turns a two-power Cold War into three-power triangular diplomacy, giving the United States the leverage for Détente, a chance for a soft la...
ListenThe Liberators | Part 12 from 2020-04-17T10:00
A change of commanders comes too late to reverse the situation in Southeast Asia as Richard Nixon's program of'Vietnamization'eases America out of its worst-directed war. But long before the las...
ListenFrom The Jaws Of Defeat | Part 11 from 2020-04-10T10:00
Mired not only in the jungles of Southeast Asia but, worse, mired in outdated, rigid doctrine, fossilized tactics, and declining morale, a light can be made out in the middle of America's darkes...
ListenCloaks and Daggers | Part 9 from 2020-03-27T10:00
With the mechanisms of apocalypse firmly in place, both sides accelerate their efforts to determine the actual capabilities of the other. No detail is too insignificant: attempts are made to rec...
ListenTo The Precipice | Part 8 from 2020-03-20T10:00
Following the Bay of Pigs disaster, and a second crisis in Europe resulting in the deadly grey reality of the Berlin Wall, an over-confident Nikita Khrushchev decides to further test what the So...
ListenPlaya Giron | Part 7 from 2020-03-13T10:00
He had grown up a rich kid, believe it or not: the illegitimate son of a millionaire planter and a servant girl half his age. He was named"Truth,"he was handsome and rugged, a 6'3"charismatic gi...
ListenDeath In The Kremlin | Part 5 from 2020-02-28T11:00
Joseph Stalin, the architect and instigator of the 42-year Cold War, has died five years into the conflict. Across the Atlantic, a new Republican President, who had worked closely with Uncle Joe...
ListenThe Forgotten War | Part 4 from 2020-02-21T11:00
Although the entire Cold War passed without shots being fired between the two superpowers, the Cold War was anything but bloodless. The Korean conflict marked the beginning of proxy wars, region...
ListenThe Thing Begins | Part 3 from 2020-02-14T11:00
So now the board is set and the pieces are in place. In the East, the battle-hardened, seemingly endless divisions of the Red Army, backed by the ruthless and pitiless Joseph Stalin and his stat...
ListenAn Iron Curtain | Part 1 from 2020-01-31T13:00
World War III — the Apocalypse that never was — started in the same place that World War II in Europe had ended: Berlin. “An Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent,” said Winston Church...
ListenPeter Robinson Interview - PLUS Episode 1 Sneak Peek from 2020-01-24T13:00
Before"The Cold War: What We Saw"officially drops on Friday, January 31st, catch a sneak peek of the first five minutes of episode one, followed by a fascinating interview with host Bill Wh...
ListenThe Cold War: What We Saw from 2020-01-16T21:45:03
November 9, 2019, is the 30th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down, freeing East Germany from communism, and marking the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. But when d...
ListenMagnificent Desolation | Part 4 from 2019-07-20T13:00
Nearly every single human with access to a TV set watched the blurry, almost surreal image of Neil Armstrong stepping live onto the surface of the moon. But after Apollo 11 returned to earth, we go...
ListenIn The Beginning...| Part 3 from 2019-07-17T13:00
As the Apollo program finally starts to take wings, learn how the entire program, and everything it accomplished, was actually NASA's backup plan.From a fire during a routine test to Christmas mess...
ListenThe Clock is Running and We're Underway! | Part 2 from 2019-07-15T13:00
Four satellite launches into the Space Race, and the score—in terms of pounds put into orbit—is Communism, 1300; Capitalism, 33. And the humiliations keep on coming. Playing it safe, America loses ...
ListenWe Choose to Go to the Moon | Part 1 from 2019-07-13T09:10
Take a front seat ride in the Apollo Lunar Module as it makes its historic descent and avoids a near catastrophe unfolding behind the scenes. Then travel back to a time before the Space Race, to th...
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