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Cold War

Satellite image of Soviet airport in 1979
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Five Things Spy Satellites Have Taught Us About Earth

by Jenessa Duncombe 6 July 202022 November 2021

Long before we had satellites beaming terabytes of data back to Earth, we had covert spacecraft the size of school buses snapping photos on rolls of film 50 kilometers long.

Black-and-white image of a nuclear bomb exploding from underwater
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Podcast: Paradise Lost

by Lauren Lipuma 6 April 202028 September 2021

Nuclear bomb tests conducted during the Cold War turned an idyllic tropical isle into a radioactive ship graveyard.

An aerial view of a nuclear explosion carried out in the Bikini Atoll in July 1946
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Bikini Seafloor Hides Evidence of Nuclear Explosions

by A. Heidt 27 December 20195 October 2021

Seafloor mapping has revealed a crater and several shipwrecks persisting 73 years after the world’s first underwater nuclear test.

Operation Crossroads nuclear test Bikini Atoll
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Podcast: How the Cold War Drove Atmospheric Science

by Lauren Lipuma 16 January 201910 January 2022

In the first episode of a special series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun traces a path from nuclear fallout detectors to modern-day meteorology instruments.

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