'In March of 1970, CBS News correspondent Richard Threlkeld was embedded with a platoon patrolling the jungles of Vietnam near Cambodia. The GI's came under fire from North Vietnamese forces as Threlkeld’s crew documented the intense firefight. This original report aired on the “CBS Evening News” on March 27, 1970.'

'As the anniversary of the Chernobyl (Chornobyl) nuclear disaster approaches, we’re highlighting the latest—and timely—publication of HURI Director Serhii Plokhii (Plokhy): Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis.'

'Experience the history and fall of the Berlin Wall visualised in videos and images. Historical archive footage, contemporary witnesses and experts are reporting.'

'On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy delivers a speech that electrifies a crowd gathered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The crowd roars with approval upon hearing the President's dramatic pronouncement, "Ich bin ein Berliner".'

'Historian Dominic Sandbrook, explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when. As a guest of President Truman in 1946, Churchill used the term in a speech in which he outlined the increasing influence of Moscow in Eastern Europe. The speech is seen by many as the beginning of the Cold War as well as asserting the need for a 'special' relationship between the USA and UK.'

'In September 1985, the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) informed other Warsaw Pact foreign intelligence agencies that it had launched a new, major disinformation campaign. “We are carrying out a complex of [active] measures in connection with the appearance in recent years of a new dangerous disease in the USA known as AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome).”'

'Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, military action carried out in late December 1979 by Soviet troops. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989.'

'As opposition to the Vietnam War grew, protests erupted in communities and college campuses across the United States. In May of 1970, four students were killed by Ohio National Guard troops on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio during a protest. The deaths shocked the nation and brought attention to the unrest of the times. This segment from Iowa Public Television's Iowans Remember Vietnam documentary includes archival footage and and first-person accounts from a news reporter, protester, and draft resistor from the era.'

'The Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the world has ever come to nuclear apocalypse. An ever-escalating arms race had led to the deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba, which were now prepped and ready to fire on Washington, New York, and almost the entire Eastern Seaboard. The defining event of the Cold War, it would see the world’s leading superpowers fight in a dangerous battle for nuclear superiority just 90 miles from the American coast. For 13 days in October 1962, American President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev would engage in a battle of wills, where one wrong move could lead to global destruction. Time was ticking, and neither side knew how events were about to unfold.'

'Washington, D.C., March 2, 2021 – The first and only president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, is turning 90 years old today in Moscow. On the occasion of his anniversary, the National Security Archive has compiled a collection of postings called “Gorbachev’s Greatest Hits.” These documents help illuminate the story of the end of the Cold War, political reform of the Soviet system, and the vision of a world built on universal human values.'

An excellent BBC documentary about the 1956 revolution in Hungary, made 30 years later.

'China's leading historian of the Korean War, Shen Zhihua, explains how Stalin and Mao saw the conflict on the Korean Peninsula and the lasting implications of the war for the Sino-Soviet alliance.'

Berlin in July 1945.

Prague Spring extract from Cold War

'On a per-capita basis, the Korean War was one of the deadliest wars in modern history, especially for the civilian population of North Korea. The scale of the devastation shocked and disgusted the American military personnel who witnessed it, including some who had fought in the most horrific battles of World War II.'