Historian Answers Cold War Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
Expert of Eastern European and Russian affairs and Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute Dr. Michael Kimmage joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about the "Cold War" contested by The Soviet Union and United States. Why was it named "the Cold War?" Was the threat of communism overblown by the United States? What is a proxy war? Why did the United States and USSR make so many nuclear warheads? Did the Soviets have technologies that surpassed those of NATO? Are we in a new Cold War today? Answers to these questions and many more await on Cold War Support.
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Cold War Support
0:14
Cold War: Beginnings
1:33
What was "the height" of the Cold War?
3:16
Did we psych ourselves out?
4:28
Good morning! Vault-Tec calling!
5:21
Stalin: As evil as they say?
5:54
The Berlin Wall
7:42
The dowing of Gary Power's U2
8:40
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
10:12
Things fall apart
11:04
The JFK Files
12:13
The Americans: Accurate?
13:15
Was Reagan's presidency an important factor in ending the Cold War?
14:02
Gorbachev
15:21
Nice government you got there…
17:08
China and Russia: Best Frenemies
17:54
Kissinger
18:25
Russians in Afghanistan
19:28
Cold War Films
20:34
NATO
21:22
Are we in a new Cold War?
22:27
Did the Soviets have technologies that surpassed those of NATO?
23:28
Nukes-a-plenty
24:23
No way of knowing, impossible
24:56
What are we even fighting about
25:29
Proxy wars
26:43
Korea
27:19
The Hungarian Uprising of 1956
28:00
Why was the KGB more successful than the CIA?
28:45
Calling out in transit! Calling out in transit! Radio-Free Europe!
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