Nuclear First Strike Plans and How They Change
Today we are addressing a listener question on how nuclear strike plans have changed over the course of the Cold War for both the United States and her adversaries. This is a fun question to answer be...
15 Sep 202548min
Poland Invokes NATO’s Article 4
Breaking news of Cold War interest! Poland invokes article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty in response to Russian drones violating Polish airspace. In this off the cuff episode i discuss what the artic...
11 Sep 202516min
The US Army in Poland
In this episode we talk about how a Cold War rival became one of the United States’ greatest allies - Poland. This episode is for my wife (and kids), as my stepson recently deployed with the Army to P...
15 Aug 20251h 18min
Finland: Cold War to NATO
Today we are talking about Finland’s Cold War experience - one of coerced neutrality and military preparedness. We’ll also spend some time talking about Finland’s recent NATO membership and geopolitic...
3 Aug 202557min
The Eternaut / El Eternauta
Today we’re going south of the equator for an interesting Cold War perspective from Argentina - El Eternauta, a comic series that originated in 1957 and was recently remade into a Netflix series. We’r...
13 Jul 202524min
The Dalai Lama Flees Tibet
The last episode we talked about the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and today we’re concluding it with the Dalai Lama escaping to India. In an already contentious world, the actions of this one man from a...
25 Jun 202547min
China Invades Tibet - 1950
Today we’re talking about the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950. We’ll discuss how China lost Tibet in the first place, the “century of humiliation” and the agreement China gave Tibet. We’ll also disc...
19 Mai 202533min
Smiling Buddha - India Goes Nuclear
With the recent tensions between India and Pakistan, i figured it was a good time to talk about India’s entrance to the nuclear club. We’ll talk about the reasons why India would want the bomb and the...
8 Mai 202531min
