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We Choose to Go to the Moon
Take a front seat ride in the Apollo Lunar Module as it makes its historic descent and avoids a near catastrophe unfoldi
The Clock is Running and We're Underway!
Four satellite launches into the Space Race, and the score—in terms of pounds put into orbit—is Communism, 1300; Cap
In The Beginning...
As the Apollo program finally starts to take wings, learn how the entire program, and everything it accomplished, was ac
Magnificent Desolation
Nearly every single human with access to a TV set watched the blurry, almost surreal image of Neil Armstrong stepping li
An Iron Curtain
Enjoy this episode for free for a limited time. The Cold War started in the same place that World War II ended: Berlin.
Two Bombs
After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the fragile alliance between the Allied countries in the west and Joseph Stalin’s ba
The Thing Begins
Immediately following World War Two, Germany was divided into four parts: British, Russian, American and French. Berlin
The Forgotten War
Although the entire Cold War passed without shots being fired between the two superpowers, the Cold War was anything but
Death in the Kremlin
Joseph Stalin, the architect and instigator of the 42-year Cold War, has died five years into the conflict. Across the A
We Like Ike
In the years after World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower was arguably the most popular man on the planet. His patriotism
Playa Giron
The man who returned to his native country with Che Guevara on a leaky tub, bringing communism to the Western Hemisphere
To The Precipice
As US reconnaissance overflights of Cuba resume after a hiatus following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion attempt, an
Cloaks and Daggers
With the mechanisms of apocalypse firmly in place, both sides accelerate their efforts to determine the actual capabilit
Welcome To The Suck
They stepped out of a big, air-conditioned silver bird, into the kind of heat, and humidity that even Americans raised i
From The Jaws Of Defeat
Mired not only in the jungles of Southeast Asia but, but from outdated, rigid doctrine, fossilized tactics, and declinin
The Liberators
A change of command comes too late to reverse the situation in Southeast Asia as Richard Nixon's program of 'Vietnamizat
A Pizza Hut Parade
Nixon goes to China and in a masterstroke of diplomacy turns a two-power Cold War into three-power triangular diplomacy.
Innocent People
Over 20 million people were murdered in 20th century Soviet Russia at the hands of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. Unimagina
Bacillus
Russia is still feeling the shock of the long-established autocracy falling with Tsar Nicholas II while they're complete
The Ramshackle Revolution
It's 1917. Lenin and comrades have galvanized large swaths of Russian common folk, or the "Proletariat," and they all wa
The Bloodbath Begins
Having just succeeded in their revolution, the Bolsheviks lay roots for what would become one of the most oppressive gov
The Victory Over Democracy
Despite the momentum Russia was gaining in prosperity and liberty in the beginning of the 20th century, the dark Bolshev
Red Terror
At the seizure of power, Lenin and his Bolsheviks are met with assassination attempts and resistance that turns into a c
Collapse
A young Georgian man exudes a charisma, competence, and a rare “hardness” that allows him to quickly rise in the ran
Echoes of Murder
What does the cold steel in Soviet Gulags do? It cracks. What does the cold Stalin, or ‘Man of Steel’ in Russian, do
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