Lockheed U 2C Surveillance Aircraft / Photo by Greg Goebel, Wikimedia Commons Much of contemporary surveillance, with its reliance on remote sensors, big data, networks, and algorithmic simulations, has its origins in early Cold War technologies that were designed to provide air defense surveillance. By Dr. John MacWillie Associate Professor of Media and Communication University[…]
North Penn Tactical Response Team of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, practicing Cellular Team Tactics / Photo by Tim McAteer, Wikimedia Commons To find the origins of modern militarized policing, we have to look back to the Cold War. By Dr. Joy Rohde / 10.22.2014 Assistant Professor of Public Policy University of Michigan To find the origins[…]
Unlike Dr Strangelove, few people learned to love the bomb – but it changed society nonetheless. Columbia Pictures The world had become too complex and too dangerous: systems were at once the threat and the solution. By Dr. John Beck / 09.19.2016 Professor in English University of Westminster World War II led to the massive[…]
In 1945, one major war ended and another began. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 09.26.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Cold War lasted about 45 years. There were no direct military campaigns between the two main antagonists, the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet billions of dollars and millions of lives were lost in[…]
The crisis in Crimea is not just about “losing Ukraine.” It would be an even greater catastrophe to “lose Russia” to a new Cold War. (Photo: Jeroen Elfferich / Flickr, Creative Commons) By Robert Naranjo As the passage of time slowly diminishes important events, it is history that must gather all the facts and emotions[…]