Coming in From the Cold: Untold Stories from the Cold War
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Coming in From the Cold: Untold Stories from the Cold War
Coming in from the Cold explores forgotten—or never-remembered—national security policy initiatives, incidents and events during the Cold War. In each episode Cold War Historian Bill Rosenau, sits down with experts on a wide range of topics to discuss these events and how they are relevant to today’...
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J. Edgar Hoover
Today, J. Edgar Hoover is remembered as a power-hungry, corrupt and prejudiced man, obsessed with an imagined threat of domestic communists. But durin...
Weaponizing the Weather
Jim Fleming is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College and a research associate at the Smithsonian Institut...
The Moscow Signal and Havana Syndrome
In 2017, reports of the mysterious “Havana Syndrome” dominated the news. American diplomats around the world reported experiencing a variety of sympto...
Napalm: The Original Weapon of Mass Destruction
The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is seen by most as the ultimate display of man’s capacity to destroy. While the destructive...
Able Archer: The Invisible Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis is widely considered to be the closest the world has come to nuclear war. But while that crisis played out in public view, th...
In Review
In this episode, we are taking a look back at the series so far and looking ahead to where it's going in the future.
John Stimpson is the produc...
The Rise of the Right
From the beginning of the Cold War, a network of U.S. conservatives dreamed of an international anti-communist revolution. Rather than overthrowing co...
Nixon and Watergate 50 Years Later
50 years ago, the Watergate scandal rocked American politics. The break-in and subsequent cover-up by the Nixon administration led to the only preside...
Urgent Fury: The 1983 Invasion of Grenada
In 1983, the United States along with Caribbean partner nations invaded the island nation of Grenada. The goals of the operation outlined by the Reag...
The Chernobyl Meltdown: Past and Present
On April 26, 1986, reactor No.4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, triggering one of the worst man-made disasters in human history. Today,...
Numbers Stations: Unacknowledged Transmission
When most of us think of radio stations we think of pop music and drive-time DJs. But those with shortwaves radios can access a whole other world of b...
A Visit to a Washington, DC Bomb Shelter
Episode 27 of Coming in from the Cold covered the history of fallout shelters and civil defense in Cold War America, now our team had a chance to expe...
Rebroadcast: The Brain as a Secret Weapon
In this episode, Ralph Espach and Ken Gause join bill to discuss the weird world of Soviet and American experiments with parapsychology, during the Co...
The Wall of Honor's First Star
At the CIA Headquarters in Langley Virginia, stands the Wall of Honor. Here CIA operatives who have died in the line of duty are memorialized. The fir...
Blowtorch Bob Komer
Very few people know the name Robert Komer, but he played a key role in shaping America’s national security policy during the Kennedy and Johnson admi...
Terrorism in New York: The Long 1960s
When most American’s think of terrorism in New York City, they think of September 11, 2001. However, there is an entire untold history of terrorism in...
The Lavender Scare in Cold War America
The story of Sen. Joseph McCarthy targeting alleged Communists working for the federal government is part of every American history textbook, but his...
Rebroadcast: The Bear Came Over the Mountain
Paul Saunders and Alex Powell join Bill to discuss the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and how world powers continue to make the same mistakes.
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The Collapse of Cold War Naval Strategic Planning
On this episode of Coming in From the Cold, CNA analysts Josh Tallis and Steve Wills join Bill. They discuss Steve’s new book, “Strategy Shelved: The...
The UFO Phenomenon: Reckoning with the Inconceivable
This month on Coming in From the Cold, returning guest Ken Gause and Kevin Pollpeter join Bill to discuss the Pentagon’s report on Unidentified Aerial...
From UFO to UAP
On this bonus episode of Coming in From the Cold, we are gearing up for the Pentagon’s report on “unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)” anticipated tod...
Gender and Violent Extremist Organizations
This time on Coming in From the Cold, Pamela Faber and Meg McBride join Bill to discuss their recent report, "Understanding Gender and Violent Extremi...
Duck and Cover
On this episode of Coming in From the Cold, returning guests Steve Wills and Anya Fink join Bill to discuss the Cold War history of nuclear fallout sh...
The John Birch Society
Bill and his guests discuss the rise and fall of the John Birch Society, a far-right organization which trafficked in conspiracy theories.
CNA’s...
The Brain as a Secret Weapon
On this episode, Ralph Espach and Ken Gause join bill to discuss the weird world of Soviet and American experiments with parapsychology, during the Co...
The Last Shah of Iran
Dr. Afshon Ostovar Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and CNA’s Mike Connell join Bill to discuss the rise and fall of the Shah of I...
Rebroadcast: Dyna-soars and Brilliant Pebbles- The Cold War in Space
On this episode, from Sputnik to Apollo to Star Wars, we cover the Cold War in space. Steve Wills returns, joined by special guest Don Brown, who lead...
The Congo Crisis: The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba
Pamela Faber returns along with Judd Devermont the director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). They d...
The Mujahideen: From Allies To Menace
This month on Coming in From the Cold, a discussion of the history of Afghanistan leading up to the Soviet Invasion, and the war's legacy in the natio...
Apartheid in South Africa: Project Coast
This month on Coming in From the Cold, CNA analyst Pamela Faber and Steve Wills join Bill to discuss Project Coast. This was the covert effort of the...
Setting the Night on Fire: Right Wing Terrorism in the U.S.
On this episode of Coming in from the Cold, Bill is joined by CNA analysts Dawn Thomas and Meg McBride as well as Arie Perliger of U-Mass Lowell. They...
American Counter-Insurgency and Policing
On this episode, Professor Stuart Schrader of John Hopkins University and CNA’s Stephen Rickman join Bill. They discuss how counter-insurgency tactics...
The Bear Came Over the Mountain
Paul Saunders and Alex Powell join Bill to discuss the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and how world powers continue to make the same mistakes.
Disinformation Cont.
This month on Coming in from the Cold, Kasey Stricklin returns for another discussion of disinformation, this time with Thomas Rid Professor of Strate...
From AIDS to Covid-19: Disease and Disinformation
Special Guest Doug Selvage of the Humboldt University in Berlin and returning guest Kasey Stricklin, join Bill to discuss the how the Soviet Union and...
The Fateful Triangle
Special Guest Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution and Nilanthi Samaranayake join Bill to discuss, the shifting relationship between India, China...
The Cold War at the Top of the World
On this episode of Coming in from the Cold, Bill and his guests put the cold in Cold War. Steve Wills returns along with Josh Tallis to discuss the hi...
Dyna-soars and Brilliant Pebbles: The Cold War in Space
On this episode, from Sputnik to Apollo to Star Wars, we cover the Cold War in space. Steve Wills returns, joined by special guest Don Brown, who lea...
PBSUCCESS: The 1954 Coup in Guatemala
On this episode, Operation, PBSUCCESS a covert operation carried out by CIA that deposed Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz. Georgetown University Pro...
The Hermit Kingdom: The Rise of the Kim Dynasty
Chung Min Lee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and returning guest Ken Gause join Bill to discuss the history of the Kim Dynasty in...