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Curated by: The Cold War (341 videos)
Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video examining the basis of deterrence theory that developed in the 1950s, the bedrock of how nuclear weapons were to be used, and not used. How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Novocherkassk Massacre 1962: https://youtu.be/b06Gfm2QVxY Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Kaliningrad: How Russia Got a Stronghold in Europe: https://youtu.be/QD6IWHFkYpc How the Soviets Won the Early Space Race: https://youtu.be/skyrA0l9erI Soviet Television and Radio: https://youtu.be/YcBKRMJI7Ck Top-5 Myths About the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/eMBh5zbN3K4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #Nuclear #Deterrence #DeterrenceTheory #Brodie #Wohlstetter #rand SOURCES: Bernard Brodie “The Absolute Weapon”, 1946 Bernard Brodie, “Strategy in the Missile Age”, 1959 Albert Wohlstetter and Roweena Wohlstetter, “Nuclear Heuristics: Selected writings of Albert Wohlstetter and Roweena Wohlstetter”, 2009 Marc Trachtenberg, “History and Strategy”, 1991 Alex Abella, “Soldiers of Reason”, 2008 Fred Kaplan, “Wizards of Armageddon”, 1983 Lawrence Freedman, “The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy”, 1983 Barry Zellen, “Bernard Brodie and the Bomb”, 2015