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Summary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAN

Summary: Reagan press conference. He discusses nuclear arms race.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1982

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Summary: Reagan Press Conference. He comments on Poland/Solidarity crisis

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981

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Conant, Jennet

Summary: "The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant--a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War--told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant. James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center of the mammoth threats and challenges of the twentieth century. As a young eminent chemist, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONANT, JAMES B. CON

Walsh, Liam Francis

Summary: "In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be a normal kid, until she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WAL

Engel, Jeffrey A.

Summary: "The untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history--the end of the Cold War--based on unprecedented access to heretofore classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 ENG

Sasgen, Peter T.

Summary: The untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, as experienced by the commanding officer of an active submarine. Few individuals outside the intelligence and submarine communities then knew anything about these top-secret missions, now known as the U.S. Navy's "silent service." Cloaking itself in virtual invisibility to avoid detection,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009

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Thomas, Evan

Summary: Examines the White House years of Dwight Eisenhower and reveals the former president, often viewed as a doddering lightweight, as a brilliant, intellectual tactician who could be patient and ruthless, and generous and self-serving.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D THO

Wheen, Francis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BBS/PublicAffairs 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.827 WHE

Burrows, William E.

Summary: Unknown to the public and cloaked in the utmost secrecy, the United States flew missions against the Communist bloc almost continuously during the Cold War in a desperate effort to collect intelligence and find targets for all-out nuclear war. The only hint of the relentless, clandestine operations came when one of the planes was shot down. Many of the air force and navy flyers were killed on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 BUR

Reed, W. Craig.

Summary: "The world came close to annihilation during the Cold War--a sobering fact known to few besides the warriors engaged in the forty-six-year conflict. In this riveting new history, former U.S. Navy diver and fast-attack submariner W. Craig Reed provides a thrilling narrative of the tense underwater dramas and covert espionage operations that brought the United States and the former U.S.S.R. to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.93 REE

Milton, Giles

Summary: "The lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II that fired the starting gun for the Cold War"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

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Blakemore, Megan Frazer.

Summary: Hazel Kaplansky and new student Samuel Butler investigate rumors that a Russian spy has infiltrated their small Vermont town, amidst the fervor of Cold War era McCarthyism, but more is revealed than they could ever have imagined.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BLA

Anderson, Scott

Summary: "At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear--to some--that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 AND

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAM

Smith, Donald

Summary: "When the Cold War split the German capital of Berlin in half, between East and West, one neighborhood was trapped in the middle. For more than twenty years, the hamlet of Steinstuecken was caught in a tug-of-war between the Americans and the Communists. Steinstuecken: A Little Pocket of Freedom, tells this hamlet's story and examines its impact on the Cold War in Europe. Steinstuecken...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Acclaim Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 SMI

MacGregor, Iain

Summary: "Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 943 MAC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MAC

Kanon, Joseph

Summary: "Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and a lower level CIA...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAN

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KAN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAN

Plokhy, Serhii

Summary: "A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclearstrikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920.9106 PLO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 PLO

Elliott, Laura

Summary: In 1950s Washington, D.C., teenaged Richard, a bookworm whose father works for the FBI, experiences effects of McCarthyism, beginning with book banning and ending with a threat to his half-Czech friend.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELL

Marrin, Albert

Summary: In twentieth century America, no threat loomed larger than the communist superpower of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of the United States attempted to use deep economic and racial disparities in American culture to win over members and sympathizers. Marrin shows how the miscarriage of justice in the Scotsboro Boys case, the tragedy of the Rosenbergs, and the menace of the Joseph...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.9 MAR

Barson, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 BAR

Macintyre, Ben

Summary: Traces the story of Russian intelligence operative Oleg Gordievsky, revealing how his secret work as an undercover MI6 informant helped hasten the end of the Cold War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2018

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Weir, Gary E.

Contents: 1. Stalins grand plan -- 2. Cruises and troubles -- 3. "Underway on nuclear power" -- 4. The Cuban Missile Crisis -- 5. An uncertain nuclear beginning -- 6. Death in the depths -- 7. A variety of intelligence gathering methods -- 8. Improving the breed -- 9. An insider's view of the mystery of the Kursk.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.93 WEI

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