CTTM Bookclub Tragedy and Hope Ch. 18 "Nuclear Rivalry and the Cold War" - recorded 1/11/25
Lee in Taiwan, Melissa in the USA, and Darin in South Africa: a multi-national cooperation as we discuss Chapter 18 of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope. The American Nuclear Debate, The Korean War, The Eisenhower Team, The Rise of Khrushchev, and The Cold War in Eastern and Southern Asia.
Nov. 1, 1952 | First Hydrogen Bomb Test
https://archive.nytimes.com/learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/nov-1-1952-first-hydrogen-bomb-test/
How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster
https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/
Operation Greenhouse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Greenhouse
The CIA and the Media
https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977
The CIA and Time Magazine: Journalistic Ethics and Newsroom Dissent
https://academic.oup.com/dh/article/48/5/719/7735828?login=false
Preachers and Spooks: Should US Missionaries Collaborate with US Intelligence Services?
https://providencemag.com/2019/10/preachers-spooks-should-missionaries-collaborate-intelligence-services/
CIA Use of Missionaries Revisited
https://www.christianitytoday.com/1996/04/cia-use-of-missionaries-revisited/
Edward Bernays: Propaganda and the U.S.-Backed 1954 Guatemalan Coup
https://janataweekly.org/edward-bernays-propaganda-and-the-u-s-backed-1954-guatemalan-coup/
The Lawyers Sam Bankman-Fried Once Trusted Are Drawing Criticism
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/technology/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-lawyers.html
April 13, 1953: CIA OKs MK-ULTRA Mind-Control Tests
https://www.wired.com/2010/04/0413mk-ultra-authorized/
Ike offers ‘Open Skies’ plan at Geneva Summit, July 21, 1955
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/07/ike-offers-open-skies-plan-at-geneva-summit-july-21-1955-039988
John Foster Dulles and the End of the Franco-American Entente in Indochina
https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/16/4/551/345221?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
The Brothers (Kinzer book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_(Kinzer_book)
Some videos used for illustration:
Atomic Tests in Nevada: The Story of the Atomic Energy Commission's Continental Proving Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSmlJTWfJDg
1950 The Atomic Energy Project: The Magic of the Atom: The Atomic City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNM4qQtdK80
Truman Imitates Kaltenborn; Tito Saluting; Chiang Kai-shek; Atom Bomb 1949/12/26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9WLImeRwOU
Why didn't Mao Conquer Taiwan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYiEXwti1_U
The Korean War (1950–53) - animated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxaegqvl4aE
The Korean War (1950–53)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoZexC7M4hM
1951 - General MacArthur at the Allentown Fairgrounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWvhyQaJGZk
Douglas MacArthur Homecoming Parade in San Francisco, CA, April 17, 1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVAMKuYqlpw
Clip: Dwight Eisenhower 1953 Presidential Inauguration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qta4eGPnbgI
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Supreme Commander & President Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72pXsjfZevU
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Their Secret World War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6aV-fUnb1M
Why France Lost The Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZUmgavuC68
Two Vietnam Wars 001 The French War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbWw5V6-cO0
Nikita Khrushchev: The Red Tsar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WBUaCbQ0g8&t=47s
De-Stalinization: The Secret speech (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSwcLmyMSFA&t=22s
Khrushchev's American Tour: A Surreal Cold War Tale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBL4z8wVfjQ
Tito-Stalin Split: When Yugoslavia broke up with USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9W_hd0_be8
The Yalta Conference - World War II History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4NPeiB2Sl8
1945-1953 From World War to Cold War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tOHdvXX-YM
Decolonisation of East Asia Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11hOQ7quOJA
French Indochina: Imperialism in Southeast Asia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6NnW0ayUrQ
Two Vietnam Wars 001 The French War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbWw5V6-cO0
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